Re: mkdir inside unwritable dir

On Jul 3 06:14, Eric Blake wrote: > -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

Re: mkdir inside unwritable dir

-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 a

Re: mkdir inside unwritable dir

On Jul 2 16:06, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Any reason why this works on cygwin, even though it fails under Linux (as > required by POSIX)? > > $ mkdir unreadable > $ chmod a-w unreadable > $ mkdir unreadable/oops > > This happened on NTFS, regardless

mkdir inside unwritable dir

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any reason why this works on cygwin, even though it fails under Linux (as required by POSIX)? $ mkdir unreadable $ chmod a-w unreadable $ mkdir unreadable/oops This happened on NTFS, regardless of whether CYGWIN=traverse was set. - -- Life is short