CHMOD not changing mode

[Holger Szillat]

Hi 
folks,
by the 
way, I saw this behaviour of chmod on my WinNT/Cygnus B20 also and it still 
drives me crazy. I tried to make a shell-script executable and though chmod did 
not complain, the mode did not change at all.
 
I recently read that the 
EADATA.SF-file is used by the Cygnus-Tools to store the stuff associated with a 
file. Could it be, that this file is normally not writable for a non-Admin user 
and therefore the attributes do not change ?? (Couldn't try it out at my 
computer yet, so just an idea ... :-)
 
Bye,
Holger 
Szillat
 
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: 
Michael Hirmke < mh@mike.franken.de > An: gnu-win32@cygnus.com < gnu-win32@cygnus.com > Datum: 
Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 1998 13:50 Betreff: Re: CHMOD not changing 
mode   >Hi Brian, > >[...] >>I 
am trying to change the mode of a file to 777 using "chmod -v 
777 >>output.dat" >>Chmod reports: >>"mode 
of output.dat changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)" >>But the file mode 
does not change, as evidenced by an ls -l. >> >>Any tricks or 
simple solutions? > >Sure you are using the Cygnus chmod 
? >This one normally doesn't tell you that it has changed 
mode. > >> >>Thanks, >> >>Brian > >Bye. >Michael. >-- >Michael 
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