On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:15:45PM -0000, John Cooper wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Are you sure you're using the cygwin version of all utilities? You >>seem to have some duplication between c:\cygwin\bin and c:\bin. > >I have a custom version of `ls' in the bin directly, but it's >definitely the Cygwin version of `touch'. I also get the same problem >when I run `echo hi > b.txt': > >$ umask >022 >$ type echo >echo is a shell builtin >echo is /c/cygwin/bin/echo >$ echo hi > b.txt >$ ls -l b.txt >-rw-r--r-- 1 John None 3 Oct 28 22:08 b.txt > >(btw, I've tried with zsh and bash and the problem occurs with both.)
Actually, if you try this similar exercise under linux you'll see similar behavior. I should have realized that before suggesting that you had another version of touch. cgf -- 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/

