Re: [Fwd: Re: perl test fails]

2003-08-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Rob, Actually, this behavior also depends on the filesystem you use. CYGWIN=ntsec alone only helps if you have NTFS. For FAT you also need "ntea" (i.e., CYGWIN="ntsec ntea" -- be aware that it'll create a large file in your drive's root directory). I believe permissions on FAT32 were broken some

Re: [Fwd: Re: perl test fails]

2003-08-29 Thread Rob Clack
Thank you Elfyn and Jurgen. A few moment's thought would have reminded me that file permissions are handled differently on NT. ;) Regards Rob Elfyn McBratney wrote: Rob Clack wrote: [...] So there seems to be a couple of weensy buggettes there, though I'm not suggesting anyone bother to fix t

Re: [Fwd: Re: perl test fails]

2003-08-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Rob Clack wrote: > [...] > So there seems to be a couple of weensy buggettes there, though I'm not > suggesting anyone bother to fix them unless they happen to be working > there anyway. They're not serious bugs, but they did obscure the real > problem and waste quite a lot of my and several o

Re: [Fwd: Re: perl test fails]

2003-08-29 Thread jurgen . defurne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/29/2003 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Jurgen Defurne/BRG/CE/PHILIPS) Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: perl test fails] Classification: Hooray, we're there! Thank you! The -x operator works perfectly, but the pro

Re: [Fwd: Re: perl test fails]

2003-08-29 Thread Rob Clack
Hooray, we're there! Thank you! The -x operator works perfectly, but the problem was still rather obscure, so here's the answer. Cygwin 1.3.22-1 under NT4, Perl 5.8.0 My script was almost identical to the one Elfyn supplied below, it just tested a local file rather than /usr/bin/perl. #!/bin

Re: [Fwd: Re: perl test fails]

2003-08-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Rob Clack wrote: > Well I thought maybe I'd better just try setting $CYGWIN, even though it > didn't seem relevant (I don't have "..problems with NT shares or Samba > drives..", since the script reliably breaks when run from a local, > non-shared drive) and indeed, it made no difference. Unles

[Fwd: Re: perl test fails]

2003-08-29 Thread Rob Clack
Well I thought maybe I'd better just try setting $CYGWIN, even though it didn't seem relevant (I don't have "..problems with NT shares or Samba drives..", since the script reliably breaks when run from a local, non-shared drive) and indeed, it made no difference. Unless there's some special w