I finally managed to solve this. As strange (or wildly speculative) as
it may sound, I have concluded the problem is related to chere (cygwin
bash prompt here) somehow interfering with the permissions on sh.exe.
If anybody is interested in more details, I can provide them. Thanks
to Larry for his
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
The thread you pointed to suggested that a shell had permissions
problems. While I agree that it doesn't quite sound like your
issue, there's no harm in investigating and
On 10/25/2013 5:19 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote:
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Perhaps not but it's worth checking your shells at least.
Not sure I understand exactly what you mean.
The thread you pointed to suggested that a shell had permissions
problems.
On 10/24/2013 6:34 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote:
I completely wiped my Cygwin32 install and re-installed the bare
minimum set of packages. But I still can't get something as basic as
'man ls' to run from a non-admin mintty bash shell.
x86$ man ls
popen: Permission denied
Attempt
I completely wiped my Cygwin32 install and re-installed the bare
minimum set of packages. But I still can't get something as basic as
'man ls' to run from a non-admin mintty bash shell.
x86$ man ls
popen: Permission denied
Attempt [/usr/bin/gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz] to expand man
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