Re: chmod Permission Error with Non-Windows Paths

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 02/26/2010 01:38 PM, Holmberg, Eric wrote:
> I'm seeing an "Permission denied" failure when using chmod on a mapped network drive.  The problem doesn't occur on the local drive and if I use a Windows-style backslash in the name, it works?!
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 EHOLMBER-XP 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin
>
> $ echo $CYGWIN
> nontsec

Here's your problem.

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>

> eholmber@EHOLMBER-XP /cygdrive/b
> $ touch test.txt
>
> $ ls -l test.txt
> -rwx------+ 1 eholmber Domain Users 0 2010-02-26 11:16 test.txt
>
> $ ls -l .\\test.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eholmber Domain Users 0 2010-02-26 11:16 .\test.txt
>
> $ chmod +w test.txt
> chmod: changing permissions of `test.txt': Permission denied
>
> $ chmod +w .\\test.txt
>
> $ ls -l .\\test.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eholmber Domain Users 0 2010-02-26 11:16 .\test.txt
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!

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