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Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:43:55 -0400
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I run Cygwin on a Windows 8.1 workstation.

I just recently started noticing that the following sequence doesn't work:

$ touch dac.txt
$ chmod 444 dac.txt
$ rm -f dac.txt

The rm -f command gets a permission denied error.  This just started 
happening recently, and I'm thinking it's because of an update to Windows.

If I do chmod u+w dac.txt before the rm -f command, then the command works.

The same sequence executed on a different machine that runs Windows 7 
and hasn't been updated in a while works fine.  And it used to work fine 
on my workstation.

Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

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