chmod works only for cygwin processes

[Magnus Svensson]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a problem that a file that I make "chmod -r" on from a 
perl script(or manually as you can see below) is readable from a windows 
process. I.e the chmod seems to work only for the cygwin programs.

Here is what I do to reproduce it:

# Create a test directory
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> mkdir test
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> cd test
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~/test> mkdir testdir
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~/test> ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 mysqldev None 0 May  4 13:44 testdir

# Remove read access from the directory
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~/test> chmod -r testdir
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~/test> ls -l
total 0
d-wx-wx-wx+ 2 mysqldev None 0 May  4 13:44 testdir
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~/test> ls -l testdir
ls: testdir: Permission denied

# Now I pipe "dir test" to windows cmd.exe and it can read it.
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~/test> echo 'dir testdir' | cmd.exe;
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\cygwin\home\mysqldev\test>dir testdir
  Volume in drive C has no label.
  Volume Serial Number is 749A-DF8B

  Directory of C:\cygwin\home\mysqldev\test\testdir

05/04/2006  01:44 PM    <DIR>          .
05/04/2006  01:44 PM    <DIR>          ..
                0 File(s)              0 bytes
                2 Dir(s)  12,312,645,632 bytes free

# cleanup
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~/test> chmod +r testdir
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~/test> cd ..
mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> rm -rf test



Please advice what I can do or try?


Attaching the above steps as a small script as well as the output from 
cygcheck -srv.


Best regards
Magnus


-- 
Magnus Svensson, Software Engineer
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com
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