From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21868 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2002 18:14:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 21780 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2002 18:14:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wilber.adroit.com) (192.232.25.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2002 18:14:17 -0000 Received: by wilber.adroit.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <15FNDPC7>; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:14:14 -0500 Message-ID: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B2159@wilber.adroit.com> From: "Robinow, David" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Can't obtain write permissions on my file... Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:14:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00871.txt.bz2 > > If I log on the Unix machine, check out my file, then > > go to my NT machine and try to modify it using Emacs, > > Emacs complains it is unwritable (though Cygwin shows > > I have rw- access, and if I right click on the file on > > Win2000, the read-only check box is not checked). > > As a matter of fact, I can write on the file: tried > > the touch command or an echo >> my file. Would somebody explain what this problem has to do with cygwin? I must be missing something. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/