Should the group of my user be None?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/08/2014 10:29 AM, Theodore Si wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed cygwin on my Windows 8.1 laptop and I found that
> the result of ls -l is like this:
> -rw-rw-r--  1 Theodore None 0 Nov  8 22:44 a
> And I fond that I am in several groups
> $ groups Theodore
> Theodore : None root Performance Log Users
>
> This raise my curiosity because when I use git, I got some error.
> Then I read this:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9561759/why-cannot-chmod-in-cygwin-on-windows-8-cp
>
>
> I wonder why I need to use chgrp to make it right? Is this a bug?

No.  It's Windows (same difference? ;-) ).  See:

<https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00046.html>
<https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00057.html>


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Larry

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A: Yes.
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