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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:36:10 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: "Pamela O'Shea" <pamoshea AT csn DOT ul DOT ie>
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Subject: Re: mv and chmod bugs ?
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First, check here: "Why doesn't chmod work?":
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC37

--Chuck

Pamela O'Shea wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I am not fully sure if these have been reported before but an
> archive search didnt return any results.
> 	I have cygwin 1.3.2 release, and the mv and chmod commands seem to
> have a problem.
> 
> 
> 1.	'chmod' for example doesnt change *any* permissions for any file,
> example
> 
> $ touch test
> $ ls -l test
> -rw-r--r--	1 poshea None	0 Aug 17 14:15 test
> $ chmod 700 test
> $ ls -l test
> -rw-r--r--      1 poshea None   0 Aug 17 14:15 test
> 
> 
> 2.	Also 'mv' has this unusal behaviour:
> 
> $ ls
> file1 file2 file3 testDirectory
> $ mv * testDirectory
> mv: cannon copy a direcoty, `testDirectory`, into itself, `testDirectory/testDirectory`
> $ cd testDirectory
> $ ls
> file1 file2 file3 testDirectory
> 
>   ..so it complains but still copies the directory anyway
> 
> Regards,
> P.
> 
>  (o_
>  //\
>  V_/_
> 
> 
> 
> 
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