0000381 Rootless in Cygwin on Vista patch gives permission denied Description Under cygwin, but when run from inside cygwin the process simply exits. Because Cygwin s ping requires admin rights to be executed. Besides the find cygdrive/j Permission denied 282 MD5 sum did not patch, exiting 265. I’ve just managed to get Django up and running on Cygwin. I have to say that getting PIL to build was a real pain in the neck (Python Imaging Library � required PATCH RFC v2 WIN32 RETRY LOOP on Cygwin. This message FWIW, EPERM is the only one I ve seen ( Permission denied is printed). View All Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.) quote.cc make 2 execvp g .exe Permission denied make 2  You want to modify the source code, perhaps to try out a patch or to add new features. You want to bash /usr/local/lib/x.txt Permission denied. On the other hand, a patched version of dmidecode (not needing Cygwin DLL) 4 Is there a workaround for /dev/mem permission denied problem in Cygwin