Robert, If the permission on the folder pointed to by $TEMP is going to be changed during install, it seems to me it would be done by setup.exe. If not, where would that operation be performed?
It looks like chmod doesn't cut it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ld $TEMP d---rwx---+ 7 Administ SYSTEM 16384 Apr 5 00:10 /cygdrive/c/WINNT/TEMP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ chmod +rw $TEMP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ld $TEMP drw-rwxr--+ 7 Administ SYSTEM 16384 Apr 5 00:10 /cygdrive/c/WINNT/TEMP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ perldoc perldoc Error in tempfile() using /XXXXXXXXXX: Parent directory (/) is not writable at /usr/bin/perldoc line 564 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Notice that global rw permissions don't stick. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:51 PM To: Mark Moore Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 17:43, Mark Moore wrote: > Christopher, > > I've read the http://cygwin.com/lists.html. Here's the description for the > mailing list I posted to: ... > The passage "[cygwin-apps] is the preferred location for design discussions > and bug reports regarding cygwin's setup.exe program" prompted me to send > the post to the cygwin-apps forum. > > If this is no longer the case, someone may want to change the instructions. What you posted has nothing to do with setup.exe. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/