[I'm using Cygwin 1.5.24-2 on Windows XP and Vista] Does anyone know why, by default, the "My Documents" directory is not listed as writable? : $ ls -ld $USERPROFILE/My\ Documents dr-x------+ 22 John None 0 Oct 20 18:26 C:\Documents and Settings\John/My Documents/
.. even though it actually is writable: $ touch $USERPROFILE/My\ Documents/foo $ This occurs on both my work and home machines; in the former case I log in as a domain user but in the latter case the machine is just in a workgroup. This strangeness causes the zsh initialization scripts to fail to create a .zcompdump file (when the HOME env var is set to the "My Documents" directory), which in turn causes each zsh invocation to be much slower than it should be. The "cacls" command indicates that the directory is writable: http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2007/msg01023.html Thanks, John. -- 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/
