Chown bug, attn fileutils maintainer (Was Re: RE : How can i really uninstall completly cygwin from Windows XP Pro ???)

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The first is a bug in the Cygwin version of chown. A temporary workaround would be to use chown -R Flo /*; chown Flo /. [snip] On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Flo wrote: Hello Thx for your help but i get and error : [snip] The error : $ chown -R Flo /

Re: Chown bug, attn fileutils maintainer (Was Re: RE : How can i really uninstall completly cygwin from Windows XP Pro ???)

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:12:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: BTW, I have a procedural question regarding this. I have a 1-line patch to fix this in the current fileutils source. However, fileutils is not maintained, and the problem (generating filenames with the '//' prefix) affects