Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>
> > Or, more accurately, a limitation of the coreutils .exe magic getting
> > thrown off by the switch to the new cygwin_conv_path.
>
> On further thought, chmod doesn't do .exe magic to begin with (cp, mv, and ln
> do, but not chmod). Maybe the culprit is the fact that coreutils uses
fchmodat
> rather than chmod?
Yep. I stepped through chmod(1) in the debugger, and this call failed:
fchmodat(AT_FDCWD, "c:/blah", 0755, 0);
even though I previously created "/cygdrive/c/blah".
It looks like gen_full_path_at is to blame; it is not recognizing DOS-style
absolute paths; it tries to construct {cygheap->cwd.posix}"/c:/blah" rather
than "c:/blah", and since "./c:" is not a directory, you get the failure.
Which means I don't have to change anything in coreutils, but cygwin1.dll does
need a refresh.
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Eric Blake
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