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Subject:	Re: chmod failed: Invalid argument
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> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 28 01:27, Christopher Cobb wrote:
>> Or maybe chmod is broken, like it is on my machine:
>> $ chmod 777 x
>> chmod: changing permissions of âxâ: Invalid argument

> Can you please send the icacls output of the current directory and
> the icacls out for the file x?

Here are the icacls outputs for the test case:

$ umask
0027

$ mkdir bar
$ cd bar
$ icacls .
. hostname\username:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)

Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

$ touch foo
$ ls -la
total 0
drwx------+ 1 username 213 0 Jan 28 15:14 .
drwx------+ 1 username 213 0 Jan 28 15:14 ..
-rwx------  1 username 213 0 Jan 28 15:14 foo

$ icacls foo
foo hostname\username:(I)(F)

Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

$ icacls .
. hostname\username:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)

Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

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