I found after some experimenting, that the previous description of my chmod problem was not quite correct. The case seems to be more complicated than I thought at first. Here is a revised description of my problem:
PROBLEM: From one day to the next, I can't chmod most old files anymore (error message: "permission denied"). I don't see any special characteristic in the *very* few old files, where permission still can be changed. chmod 0777 some_old_file => ... Permission denied When I create a new file, behaviour depends on how I create it: touch new_file1 chmod 0777 new_file1 => works fine. perl -e 'open(X,">new_file2"); print X "abc";' chmod 0777 new_file2 => works fine too. But when I open a text editor, from within the editor create the new file, exit the editor, and then do a chmod on the file, I get "Permission denied" again. My first thought was that the user id might mysteriously have changed over night, but a listing of the files with ls -ln and a check of my user id with id -u confirms that the same numeric user id is used all the time. I'm running cygwin under Windows 2000. My CYGWIN variable has the value: tty ntsec smbntsec Any idea what is going wrong? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer Infineon Technologies AG IT BT CFS IKM Tel: +49 89 234 81643 Fax +49 89 234 27850 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***** VISIT US AT: <http://www.infineon.com> ***** -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
