Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020204082832.04c39ec0@pop.redback.com> X-Sender: millerj@pop.redback.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 09:33:32 -0800 To: bug-fileutils@gnu.org From: John Miller Subject: chmod in cygwin Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I hope this isn't a stupid question. When I try to use chmod, it doesn't do what I expect. See below. Am I doing something wrong? I'm running Windows NT 4.0 sp6. I've tried with Windows 2000 with same results. Thanks -John administrator@WASHINGTON /test $ ls -l total 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 17 Feb 4 08:43 test -rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 26 Feb 4 08:32 test2 administrator@WASHINGTON /test $ chmod -v 777 test2 mode of test2 changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) administrator@WASHINGTON /test $ ls -l total 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 17 Feb 4 08:43 test -rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 26 Feb 4 08:32 test2 administrator@WASHINGTON /test $ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/