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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:56:41 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "chmod a+x filename" shows no effect on W2K
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:32:10PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Peter Buckley schrieb am 2001-10-09 12:16:
>
>Set CYGWIN=tty andwhatyoulike
>as systemwide environment variable so it is accessible by 
>all processes.
>
>>Also be aware that chmod may sporadically not work and 
>>then work. Just for no reason, and it isn't repeatable. 
>
>Never seen such a behaviour.

Me neither.

AFAIK, we've had exactly one report of this behavior so I think
it is premature to offer this as a general caveat to any use who
uses CYGWIN=ntsec.  I would suspect cockpit errors first.

cgf

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