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Date: | Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:05:01 -0500 |
From: | JT Williams <jtw AT sfbrgenetics DOT org> |
Subject: | EACCES using 'touch' |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Message-id: | <20080920190501.GA8618@sfbrgenetics.org> |
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Hello, On a plain vanilla DOS 5.0/djgpp 2.03+ system, running bash 2.04.7(2), I am unable to 'touch' a directory (but touching a file works as expected): % touch foo % mkdir bar % touch bar touch: creating `bar': Permission denied (EACCES) % touch -r foo bar touch: creating `bar': Permission denied (EACCES) -- j
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