I don't know if this is a bug or not but I just noted that: touch test chmod a-w rm -f test works, but mkdir test chmod a-w test rm -rf test Doesn't. Its not clear to me from the manpage whether it should or not. Can anyone enlighten me? This is 1.3.1, ntsec. andy -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple