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According to Lloyd Zusman on 10/27/2006 5:49 AM:
> 
>>> There don't seem to be any extensions to chmod that will accomplish
>>> this,
>> There is no concept of hidden or system as a file attribute in Linux. 
>> It's achieved via a leading dot in the file name...
> 
> I was mentioning _extensions_ to the chmod command, not the standard
> Linux syntax.  The cygwin ps command has the "-W, --windows" extension,
> and I was commenting on the fact that the cygwin chmod command doesn't
> have anything similar that might deal with Windows-specific file attributes.

I'm not going to write such an extension to chmod.  But
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC - if you want to write it, I will consider
adding it to coreutils.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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