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Re: [1.7] chmod fails with windows path
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:57:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: [1.7] chmod fails with windows path
- References: <4946A1DF.9020601@spiresoftware.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Dec 15 10:28, Glenn Serre wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> In 1.7, using chmod with a Windows path fails is in the attached
> chmod_output.txt. Using a posix path works as expected.
>
> I can, of course, fix my makefile to not use windows paths, but it is a
> change from previous behavior and seems inconsistent with the behavior of
> other commands that do work on windows paths.
>
> So far, these commands work on windows paths
>
> ls
> getfacl
>
> and these don't
>
> chmod
> chown
> chmod +x e:/tmp/gimp/*.exe
> chmod: changing permissions of `e:/tmp/gimp/gimp-2.2.13-i586-setup-1.exe': No such file or directory
> chmod: changing permissions of `e:/tmp/gimp/gtk+-2.10.6-1-setup.exe': No such file or directory
This seems to be a problem in coreutils. I just tried the chmod function
with DOS paths and it works as expected.
Corinna
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