Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7

[Dave Korn]

Steven Hartland wrote:
> Just to be 100% clear its not the fact that the script errors, its the fact
>  that the permissions after the initial DOS pathed chmod doesn't actually 
> set the permissions correctly and doesn't throw any error.

  Also, it's not just perl, you can reproduce it in a shell:

> $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe
> ls: cannot access /tmp/test.exe: No such file or directory
> 
> $ touch /tmp/test.exe
> 
> $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 /tmp/test.exe
> 
> $ cygpath -w /tmp/test.exe
> F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe
> 
> $ chmod 777 'F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe'
> 
> $ echo $?
> 0
> 
> $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 /tmp/test.exe
> 

  I found a clue, but I don't know what it means:

> $ ls -l 'F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe'
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe
> 
> $ ls -l 'F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe'
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe
> 
> $

  And no, I don't know why I didn't get the warning.  I have nothing in my
$CYGWIN.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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