From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: CHMOD not changing mode 11 Dec 1998 19:46:05 -0800 Message-ID: <76eVFUwppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: <01be237a$89034df0$70090286 AT student5 DOT informatik DOT uni-tuebingen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Holger, [...] >by the way, I saw this behaviour of chmod on my WinNT/Cygnus B20 also = >and it still drives me crazy. I tried to make a shell-script executable = >and though chmod did not complain, the mode did not change at all. set CYGWIN=ntea > >I recently read that the EADATA.SF-file is used by the Cygnus-Tools to = >store the stuff associated with a file. Could it be, that this file is = >normally not writable for a non-Admin user and therefore the attributes = >do not change ?? (Couldn't try it out at my computer yet, so just an = >idea ... :-) No, this file is necessary only for FAT partitions, NTFS can hold all this info itself. > >Bye, >Holger Szillat Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de | WWW http://aquarius.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".