From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2004-06-14T22:32:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Rakefile under Cygwin: permission denied

Robert Klemme writes:

> Did you verify that the commands work from the prompt?  Otherwise I'd
> suspect a permissions problem.
> 

This is Windows XP and my login has admin privileges: what permissions? :-)

Actually, what's failing is deep inside rake. Its "timestamp" method calls

	File.new(name.to_s).mtime

but the "File.new('foo/bar')" is what fails with the "permission denied"
error. When I do "ls -l" (I'm using Cygwin)

~> ls -l foo
total 0
-rw-rw-rw-   1 JMenard  5               0 Jun 14 09:32 bar
~> ls -l foo/bar
-rw-rw-rw-   1 JMenard  5               0 Jun 14 09:32 foo/bar

Jim
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