Re: ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

[Thomas Wolff <towo at towo dot net>]

Am 09.02.2015 um 16:37 schrieb diod lightbulb:
> ...
>
> 1-  For pre-existing files/directories under /cygdrive/d and /cygdrive/e
> All my file permissions that were correctly reported by ls -l as
> rw-r--r-- became all of a sudden -rw-rwxr--+ ??? The same for
> directories where all previously 755 dirs came back as drwxrwxr-x+
>
>
> ...
> % chmod 644 buggy
> % stat -c " %a %u %g" buggy
>   " buggy 674 1000 545
>
> Oooch, no change??? chmod used to work before today (BTW, same
> behavior for pre-existing files: chmod has no effect).
> ...
See my mail about "group permissions". This would resolve nicely if 
chmod gets changed to behave like on Linux.
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Thomas

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