From: rms39 AT columbia DOT edu ("Russell Steinthal") Subject: File ownership under beta 17.1 bash 23 Jan 1997 20:47:36 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701240227.VAA28631.cygnus.gnu-win32@mailrelay1.cc.columbia.edu> Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I recently installed beta 17.1 under Windows 95 and have been experimenting both with bash and with trying to build some GNU software packages. One thing I haven't been able to determine is how bash handles file ownership. While I was making less, make kept stopping with an error that I was "not the owner" of one of the system headers. If I then reran make (without any intervening commands), it would successfully get past that header, and maybe that source file, only to stop again with the same error for another header. Running make enough times eventually compiled the entire package, although it didn't work. :) (I think that's due to an unrelated problem, though.) I also tried creating a symbolic link to a directory, using ln -s i386-cygwin32 local, which succesfully made ls show the pointer indicating the link. However, trying to change into the local directory generates a "not the owner" error as well. Is this also an ownership problem, or have I just expected too much in thinking that symlinks will actually work under Win95? :) Thanks for any help. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Russell Steinthal =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".