On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote:
> $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -w /`
> $ echo $CYGPATH
> C:\cygwin
> $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -u "$CYGPATH"`
> $ echo $CYGPATH
> /
>
> What I really want to get is "C:/cygwin"
$ cygpath -m /
> or "/cygdrive/c/cygwin", in my case.
$ cygpath -m / | sed 's,^\([A-Za-z]\):,/cygdrive/\1,'
> Look at the weird messages I get from this chmod:
>
> $ chmod -R ug+rwX,o+rX /
> chmod: getting attributes of `//bin: No such file or directory
> [snip similar messages]
This is a bug in chmod -R that manifests in Cygwin. The real solution is
to fix chmod, in lines 236-241 of chmod.c in fileutils-4.1-2. A
workaround would be
$ cd / && chmod -R ug+rwX,o+rX .
(or, a bit simpler, "cd / && chmod -R a+rX,ug+w .")...
> (I'm doing this to try to ensure that if a SysAdmin user installs
> Cygwin for the actual owner of the machine, the owner will later have
> permission to update or even uninstall Cygwin themselves.)
HTH,
Igor
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