Re: want to continue using Cygwin 1.5

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 4/4/2010 12:50 AM, prakash babu wrote:
> Since MS-DOS style path is not supported by chmod in Cygwin 1.7, I want
> to continue using Cygwin 1.5 on my new Windows box.

Seems like a long way to go to keep support for a minor feature, which
was buggy to start with.  While it's certainly your choice, 1.5 is, as
mentioned already, unsupported.  You might want to consider generating
a little script that you invoke as "chmod" which calls "attrib" with the
appropriate setting for the "r" flag when it spots a MS-DOS style path
and the real chmod in all other cases.  While I'm sure it would be a
little work to do this well, I expect you'll find the effort pays off
unless 1.5 does everything you ever wanted or need and will fulfill
that promise for you in the future.

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