File permission problems with new cygwin dll

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:09:31AM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
>I just upgraded to the new cygwin dll and gcc, and I seem to be running
>into some of the same problems reported by others. (Yes, I know ntsec
>is now enabled by default.)
>
>First problem: chmod doesn't work. Whenever I try to use it, I just get
>"chmod: changing permissions of `foo': Invalid argument".

As a guess, that would probably be an indication that your /etc/passwd
is out of sync with your Windows account.  Rerunning mkpasswd may help.

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