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Subject:  Re: [1.7] chmod fails with windows path
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:25:49 +0000 (UTC)
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Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> Or, more accurately, a limitation of the coreutils .exe magic getting
> thrown off by the switch to the new cygwin_conv_path.

On further thought, chmod doesn't do .exe magic to begin with (cp, mv, and ln 
do, but not chmod).  Maybe the culprit is the fact that coreutils uses fchmodat 
rather than chmod?

-- 
Eric Blake




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