"Igor Peshansky" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.63.0712181355260.28181@access1.cims.nyu.edu... > Heh. I just looked, and it seems you've never posted the output of > "cygcheck -svr" on your system ... Well, I didn't think I was reporting a problem except possibly with my own understanding... > I bet ... the DOS "Read-only" bit on the directory is probably set. Bingo! Having changed that, I get: > ls -ld /tmp drwxr-xr-x 12 michael None 245760 Dec 18 14:26 /tmp ... and... > if [ -w /tmp ]; then echo "Yes"; else echo "No"; fi Yes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/