From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: Can't do "chmod +x" with recent coolview?
28 Jul 1998 01:12:56 GMT
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References: <5010400025301476000002L062*.cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT MHS>
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In article <5010400025301476000002L062*.cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT MHS>,
Craig Setera <setera AT us DOT ibm DOT com> wrote:
>I downloaded one of the more recent coolview releases from Sergey onto NT and
>now I am unable to "chmod +x" a shell script.  Although the script will run
>from the command line (sort of), the program that wants to call the script
>checks the permission set and finds that it isn't executable.  It complains and
>quits.  What am I missing that is required to add executable permissions to a
>shell script?  On the flip side... the waitpid() hangs that I was seeing are
>now fixed... Thanks for that!

Are you running on a FAT partition, perhaps?  If so, you'll have to set
CYGWIN32=ntea to restore the previous behavior.
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