Re: chmod fails for MS-DOS style path in cygwin 1.7.2-2

2010-04-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/1/2010 11:18 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:03:34AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 04/01/2010 07:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: How could a specific error message, which tells you how to turn it off, be construed as a bug? Maybe a bug as in "this bothers me"

Re: chmod fails for MS-DOS style path in cygwin 1.7.2-2

2010-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:03:34AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >On 04/01/2010 07:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>How could a specific error message, which tells you how to turn it off, >>be construed as a bug? > >Maybe a bug as in "this bothers me". By those criteria you classify as a bug.

Re: chmod fails for MS-DOS style path in cygwin 1.7.2-2

2010-04-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/01/2010 07:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:09:29PM +0530, prakash babu wrote: I am using cygwin 1.7.2-2 and chmod fails for MS-DOS style path with the following error message. eg: chmod 755 C:\\FileName cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\FileName

Re: chmod fails for MS-DOS style path in cygwin 1.7.2-2

2010-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:09:29PM +0530, prakash babu wrote: >I am using cygwin 1.7.2-2 and chmod fails for MS-DOS style path with the >following error message. > >eg: chmod 755 C:\\FileName > >cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\FileName >Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/Fil

Re: chmod fails for MS-DOS style path in cygwin 1.7.2-2

2010-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 1 14:09, prakash babu wrote: > I am using cygwin 1.7.2-2 and chmod fails for MS-DOS style path with the > following error message. > > eg: chmod 755 C:\\FileName >   > cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\FileName > Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/FileName > CYGWIN en

R: chmod fails for MS-DOS style path in cygwin 1.7.2-2

2010-04-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Gio 1/4/10, prakash babu ha scritto: > I am using cygwin 1.7.2-2 and chmod > fails for MS-DOS style path with the following error > message. > > eg: chmod 755 C:\\FileName you should use POSIX style chmod 755 $(cygpath -u C:\\FileName) or chmod 755 /cygdrive/c/FileName >   > cygwin war

chmod fails for MS-DOS style path in cygwin 1.7.2-2

2010-04-01 Thread prakash babu
I am using cygwin 1.7.2-2 and chmod fails for MS-DOS style path with the following error message. eg: chmod 755 C:\\FileName   cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\FileName Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/FileName CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns of