Subject: Re: How can I have a working chmod
From: [email-masked] (Geoffrey Noer)

20 Nov 1998 17:49:30 -0800
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To: JJ Streicher-Bremer <[email-masked]>
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On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 07:53:48AM -0800, JJ Streicher-Bremer wrote:
>
> I have noticed that the cygnus chmod program seems to have little effect
> on the actual filesystem permissions.

Correct.  You can set the exec bit on NTFS partitions with NTEA turned
on in the CYGWIN environment variable.  You can set read-only
vs. read-write on all partitions.  But that's about it.  This is an
area that could probably use more work in Cygwin.  Any volunteers?

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Geoffrey Noer
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