From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: How can I have a working chmod 20 Nov 1998 17:49:30 -0800 Message-ID: <19981119230058.36834.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> References: <3.0.3.16.19981111154508.18ff46ba@exmachina.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: JJ Streicher-Bremer Cc: John Mullee , Guglielmo Pasa , gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".