Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/28/04:51:38
I found after some experimenting, that the previous description of
my chmod problem was not quite correct. The case seems to be more
complicated
than I thought at first. Here is a revised description of my problem:
PROBLEM:
From one day to the next, I can't chmod most old files anymore (error
message:
"permission denied"). I don't see any special characteristic in the
*very*
few old files, where permission still can be changed.
chmod 0777 some_old_file
=> ... Permission denied
When I create a new file, behaviour depends on how I create it:
touch new_file1
chmod 0777 new_file1
=> works fine.
perl -e 'open(X,">new_file2"); print X "abc";'
chmod 0777 new_file2
=> works fine too.
But when I open a text editor, from within the editor create the new
file,
exit the editor, and then do a chmod on the file, I get "Permission
denied"
again.
My first thought was that the user id might mysteriously have changed
over night,
but a listing of the files with
ls -ln
and a check of my user id with
id -u
confirms that the same numeric user id is used all the time.
I'm running cygwin under Windows 2000. My CYGWIN variable has the value:
tty ntsec smbntsec
Any idea what is going wrong?
Ronald
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