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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:26:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: Cygwin chmod no work in ClearCase WinNT view
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In-Reply-To: <39BFE248.CEB6B233@openmarket.com>; from gmoore@openmarket.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:23:36PM -0400

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:23:36PM -0400, Guy T. Moore Jr. wrote:
>All,
>
>I read several Cygwin emails on chmod not working, but could
>not extrapolate from them a working solution...
>
>If I go into my ClearCase view:
>      `cd v:`
>then copy a VOB element to another file and change the permissions on it:
>      `cp file1 file2`
>      `chmod 777 file2`     (file1, a CLearCase VOB element has permissions of 444)
>I am unable to append to or touch that file.
>        `cat file1 >> file2`
>        `touch file2`
>bash: file2: Permission denied
>
>I think the problem is that Cygwin's `cp` command is not copying as well as the DOS
>`copy` command or that Cygwin's `chmod` command is not doing everything that it could
>be doing.
>
>Thanks for any replies

Since no one on the development team has ClearCase (as far as I know), it is unlikely
that this will be fixed.

If you need this functionality, you're going to have to debug the problem yourself.

cgf

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