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Date:	Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:54:25 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: chmod not working
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In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SOL.4.10.10102061210090.11930-100000@comp.uark.edu>; from vlabella@uark.edu on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:14:13PM -0600

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Vincent Labella wrote:
> Hello,
> 	After applying the recent updates I can't get chmod to work. 
> 
> chmod a+x test.pl
> does nothing
> 
> with -v option I get
> mode of test.pl changed to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
> 
> but ls -la gives:
> -rw-r--r--   1 administ None         4795 Feb  6 12:06 test.pl
> 
> any suggestions?  is this a mounting issue?

No chance on FAT, only NTFS supports UNIX like modes and only
when the env var CYGWIN contains "ntsec".

http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Corinna

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