-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/3/2006 2:28 AM: >> $ mkdir unreadable >> $ chmod a-w unreadable >> $ mkdir unreadable/oops >> > Any chance you're running with administrator privileges?
How'd you guess? Yes, this was on an XP machine where I have admin privileges. I found it because 'make distcheck' on the m4 package was working for me but failing for others, thanks to automake setting the srcdir tree to read-only when testing a package tarball for VPATH completeness. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEqQoa84KuGfSFAYARAsXIAJoDKUEQl1DXlkBg5ceP1DgahjTctQCgjT20 jFzBshZW9Pz/kNXZ3S5H7So= =uBb/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
