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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:45:03 -0500
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From: Roland Glenn McIntosh <roland AT steeltorch DOT com>
Subject: Re: chmod in cygwin
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It's my understanding that whether a file is executable or not in cygwin is determined by the following:

- file extension (.com, .bat, .exe)
- the first line of the file (#!/bin/bash)

I know of no other conditions which would make a file executable in cygwin, but if there were, it would be along those lines.

-rgm

At 09:33 AM 02.04.2002 -0800, you wrote:

>I hope this isn't a stupid question. When I try to use chmod, it doesn't do what I expect.
>See below. Am I doing something wrong? I'm running Windows NT 4.0 sp6. I've tried with Windows 2000 with same results.
>
>Thanks
>-John
>
>
>administrator AT WASHINGTON /test
>$ ls -l
>total 1
>-rw-r--r--   1 administ None           17 Feb  4 08:43 test
>-rw-r--r--   1 administ None           26 Feb  4 08:32 test2
>
>administrator AT WASHINGTON /test
>$ chmod -v 777 test2
>mode of test2 changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
>
>administrator AT WASHINGTON /test
>$ ls -l
>total 1
>-rw-r--r--   1 administ None           17 Feb  4 08:43 test
>-rw-r--r--   1 administ None           26 Feb  4 08:32 test2
>
>administrator AT WASHINGTON /test
>$
>
>
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