Can't do "chmod +x" with recent coolview?
Christopher G. Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Mon Jul 27 19:43:00 GMT 1998
In article <5010400025301476000002L062*.cygnus.gnu-win32@MHS>,
Craig Setera <setera@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>I downloaded one of the more recent coolview releases from Sergey onto NT and
>now I am unable to "chmod +x" a shell script. Although the script will run
>from the command line (sort of), the program that wants to call the script
>checks the permission set and finds that it isn't executable. It complains and
>quits. What am I missing that is required to add executable permissions to a
>shell script? On the flip side... the waitpid() hangs that I was seeing are
>now fixed... Thanks for that!
Are you running on a FAT partition, perhaps? If so, you'll have to set
CYGWIN32=ntea to restore the previous behavior.
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