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Re: How can I have a working chmod
- To: JJ Streicher-Bremer <jj at digisle dot net>
- Subject: Re: How can I have a working chmod
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:00:58 -0800
- Cc: John Mullee <john at exmachina dot net>, Guglielmo Pasa <gpasa at omedia dot ch>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <3.0.3.16.19981111154508.18ff46ba@exmachina.net> <364B048C.93B90C00@digisle.net>
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 07:53:48AM -0800, JJ Streicher-Bremer wrote:
>
> I have noticed that the cygnus chmod program seems to have little effect
> on the actual filesystem permissions.
Correct. You can set the exec bit on NTFS partitions with NTEA turned
on in the CYGWIN environment variable. You can set read-only
vs. read-write on all partitions. But that's about it. This is an
area that could probably use more work in Cygwin. Any volunteers?
--
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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