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Re: chmod again

John Williams wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:

I'm doing this on a fat32 partition...


That explains it. Try setting CYGWIN=ntea before changing permissions.


OK done. Well it does something different now, but still doesn't work:

jwilliams at G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
$ export CYGWIN=ntea



Ah, this won't work.  You can't be running *any* Cygwin process when
setting this value.




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