Re: Bug in type -a

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

Andreas,

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 05:58:39PM +0200, Andreas Wicker wrote:
> $ PATH=/bin:/lib:/cygdrive/c/WINNT
> $ type regedit
> regedit is /cygdrive/c/WINNT/regedit
> $ type -a regedit
> bash: type: regedit: not found
> 
> I think that "type -a" should give the same result as "type" in this case.

The above may be true, but...

> I've found that this happens only when Cygwin runs on Windows 2000,
> (Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2) but
> never when Cygwin runs on Windows NT (WinNT Ver 4.0 build 1381 Service
> Pack 5).  It happens not only with regedit, but with every exe that
> resides in C:/WINNT.

The problem is due to the following:

    $ ls -l /mnt/c/WINNT/regedit
    -rwxrwx---    1 Administ SYSTEM      72464 Jul 26  2000 /mnt/c/WINNT/regedit
           ^^^

The "solution" is the following:

    $ chmod 775 /mnt/c/WINNT/regedit.exe
    $ type -a regedit
    regedit is /mnt/c/WINNT/regedit

So, you can "fix" your problem with:

    $ chmod 755 /cygdrive/c/WINNT/*.exe

Jason

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