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Re: b15:chmod does not work
- To: "Purdom, Rick W." <RWPurdom at CovHlth dot com>
- Subject: Re: b15:chmod does not work
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:04:32 +0200
- CC: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <EB382A73954ED211988600104B68234F0250C2B4@cptw0602.fsa.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
"Purdom, Rick W." wrote:
>
> chmod will only add/remove the write permission for the owner of the file -
> no others are
> affected even though chmod verbose reports that they were changed
This is expected behaviour if your are either using FAT filesystem
or NTFS without setting the CYGWIN env variable to contain the
string `ntsec' (besides possible others).
Try reading the online documentation:
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/docs.html
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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