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On Dec 1 17:42, Dave Korn wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > > Just to be 100% clear its not the fact that the script errors, its the fact > > that the permissions after the initial DOS pathed chmod doesn't actually > > set the permissions correctly and doesn't throw any error. > > Also, it's not just perl, you can reproduce it in a shell: > > > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe > > ls: cannot access /tmp/test.exe: No such file or directory > > > > $ touch /tmp/test.exe > > > > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe > > -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 /tmp/test.exe > > > > $ cygpath -w /tmp/test.exe > > F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe > > > > $ chmod 777 'F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe' > > > > $ echo $? > > 0 That's by design. When you use Win32 paths, instead of POSIX paths, you will get Win32 default permission handling. Or, in other words, for all DOS paths the mount mode is "noacl". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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