Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Kai Henningsen" Organization: Spuentrup CTI To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, Glenn Spell Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:48:28 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Kai Henningsen" X-pmrqc: 1 In-reply-to: <19991005052957.A17687@ba.best.com> References: ; from "Kai Henningsen" on Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:59AM X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from Quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id FAA08498 On 5 Oct 99, at 5:29, Glenn Spell wrote: > On 5 Oct 1999 around 10:59AM (+0200) Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > On 5 Oct 99, at 10:15, I wrote: > > > > > I'm seeing this every time I ./configure something. Anybody know > > > what is going on? > > > > > > Sure doesn't _look_ unwritable. Besides, the very same script > > > just created it. > > It's unwritable by anyone other the owner of the file. > > > Well, it's "test -w" failing. Obviously because of this: > > bash-2.02$ id > > uid=1000(kai) gid=513(Kein) groups=513(Kein) > ^^^^ > > bash-2.02$ chmod a+w test > > If you're using a recent snapshot, setting "ntsec" in your CYGWIN > variable may cause chmod to work correctly. (I say "may" because I > really don't know. I don't run NT.) Historically, chmod returns > without error on Cygwin but does nothing. > > > bash-2.02$ ls -la test > > -rw-r--r-- 1 544 Kein 0 Oct 5 09:57 test > ^^^ > You (UID 1000) don't own the file, UID 544 (administrator) owns > it. (I guess you already knew that. :-) What I don't understand is how this happens. After all, I created the file. And I _can_ write to the file. Something is very wrong here. > You need to login as administrator I don't consider that an option. Besides, I don't get any extra rights that way. Regards - Kai Henningsen -- http://www.cats.ms Spuentrup CTI Fon: +49 251 322311 0 Windbreede 12 Fax: +49 251 322311 99 D-48157 Münster Mob: +49 161 3223111 Germany GSM: +49 171 7755060 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com