Steven Hartland wrote: > Just to be 100% clear its not the fact that the script errors, its the fact > that the permissions after the initial DOS pathed chmod doesn't actually > set the permissions correctly and doesn't throw any error.
Also, it's not just perl, you can reproduce it in a shell: > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe > ls: cannot access /tmp/test.exe: No such file or directory > > $ touch /tmp/test.exe > > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe > -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 /tmp/test.exe > > $ cygpath -w /tmp/test.exe > F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe > > $ chmod 777 'F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe' > > $ echo $? > 0 > > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe > -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 /tmp/test.exe > I found a clue, but I don't know what it means: > $ ls -l 'F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe' > -rwxr-xr-x 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe > > $ ls -l 'F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe' > -rwxr-xr-x 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe > > $ And no, I don't know why I didn't get the warning. I have nothing in my $CYGWIN. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple