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Subject:	Re: Cannot change file permission with either chmod or setfacl
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Laurent Monnoye wrote:
> 
>> $ chmod 600 foo
>>
>> $ ls -l foo
>> -rw-r--r-- 0 xotrader01 Users 4 Sep  5 18:05 foo
> 
> You've left out the most relevant detail: what type of filesystem does
> foo reside on?  NTFS, FAT, NFS, Samba?

Yep.  See the FAQ entry:

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod>

This should give you some info to go on.

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