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From: david AT adboyd DOT com (J. David Boyd)
Subject: Re: chmod questions
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:49:35 -0400
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Drew Adams <drew DOT adams AT oracle DOT com> writes:

> I have read various info regarding trying to make Cygwin's `chmod'
> work as (I) expected, including the Cygwin FAQ and user guide.
> I am using Windows 7 with an NTFS disk.  My user and group are
> defined as they should be AFAIK.
>
> Two questions in this regard:
>
>  . is "chmod a-w" supposed to set the Windows Read-only attribute
>    on Windows 7?
>
>  . is "chmod a-w" supposed to cause "ls -l" to show -r-r-r on
>    Windows 7?
>
> When I do `chmod a-w' it does not seem to have any effect.  The
> target file is still writable.  Can someone please tell me what
> I'm missing?  Thx.

Works for me.

Here's a file on my system:

$ ls -ltr boxes.txt
-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 A4J0PZZ Administrators 45 Aug  5 12:46 boxes.txt


When I run chmod a-w boxes.txt, I get

$ ls -ltr boxes.txt
-r--r--r--+ 1 A4J0PZZ Administrators 45 Aug  5 12:46 boxes.txt

and the file is no longer writeable.

That's not what you are seeing?  I'm on Windows 7 with an NTFS disk as well.


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