From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: How can I have a working chmod
20 Nov 1998 17:49:30 -0800
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To: JJ Streicher-Bremer <jj AT digisle DOT net>
Cc: John Mullee <john AT exmachina DOT net>, Guglielmo Pasa <gpasa AT omedia DOT ch>,
        gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT 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?

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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