Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42C141B8.4000604@byu.net> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:25:28 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FischRon.external@infineon.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS References: <25F7D2213F14794A8767B88203EA2BC9240C4C@mucse201.eu.infineon.com> In-Reply-To: <25F7D2213F14794A8767B88203EA2BC9240C4C@mucse201.eu.infineon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to FischRon.external@infineon.com on 6/28/2005 2:51 AM: > When I create a new file, behaviour depends on how I create it: > > touch new_file1 > chmod 0777 new_file1 > > => works fine. > But when I open a text editor, from within the editor create the new > file, > exit the editor, and then do a chmod on the file, I get "Permission > denied" > again. My quick guess is that ACLs are at work. Compare the output of "getfacl old new". Actually posting the output of "ls -l", "stat", or "getfacl" might be helpful here, so that others can look at the permissions as well. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCwUG484KuGfSFAYARAlSmAKC8B6s6vqA0Xk+METvFHHS4hboHqQCdEbLE BB5c7c5FCBLZ1lj2YiowzNc= =59oU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/