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On 02/15/2011 09:52 AM, hardya wrote:
>=20
> Andrew Hardy AT ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples
> $ ls -l Simulation
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28  2005 Simulation
>=20
> Andrew Hardy AT ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples
> $ chmod -v 666 Simulation
> mode of `Simulation' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-)
>=20
> Andrew Hardy AT ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples
> $ ls -l Simulation
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28  2005 Simulation

Is this on a FAT or remote drive, perhaps?  FAT doesn't have
permissions, therefore cygwin fakes those permissions, and fakes chmod()
as success rather than an error, when it's really just a no-op on losing
file systems.

--=20
Eric Blake   eblake AT redhat DOT com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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