chmod again

John Williams jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au
Tue Apr 15 04:41:00 GMT 2003


Christopher Faylor wrote:

>>I'm doing this on a fat32 partition...
> 
> That explains it.  Try setting CYGWIN=ntea before changing permissions.

OK done.  Well it does something different now, but still doesn't work:

jwilliams@G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
$ export CYGWIN=ntea

jwilliams@G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
$ ls -alrt init
-rw-r--r--    1 jwilliam Domain U    27984 Apr 15 11:45 init

jwilliams@G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
$ chmod 777 init
chmod: changing permissions of `init': Bad file descriptor

jwilliams@G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
$ ls -alrt init
-rw-r--r--    1 jwilliam Domain U    27984 Apr 15 11:45 init

John



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