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Mike, I'm not an authority, but I'll give a guess / hunch. I'm only giving non-authoritative information because it's a weekend (and a 3-day one in the U.S.) and I thought that would be better than waiting for something more authoritative. I think the issue here is that Cygwin does not maintain parallel data structures, and hence cannot truly record modes that are not native to the file system you're using. If that file systems is a FAT file system, then I believe the "permissions" are simple read-only / read-write. I know NTFS has a sophisticated permissions scheme with owners, users and groups and perhaps on an NTFS volume Cygwin will implement read / write for owners, group and others (there's still no execute bit--that one is synthesized by Cygwin based on the file name extension or the presence of a #!interpreterName line at the very beginning of the file). I'm pretty sure this is a reasonable approximation of the issue you're seeing. I'm even more sure that someone will correct me and / or complete this picture shortly... Randall Schulz Teknowledge Corp. Palo Alto, CA USA + At 16:01 -0700 9/2/00, Winbox X wrote: >I wonder if someone noticed this. After I chmod of a file >a 'ls -l' tell me nothing is changed for the mod of the Group and Others. > >-Mike -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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