Re: chmod with no influence

[Bob Proulx]

> I'm using a cygwin bash shell on a Windows 2000 Server

The hard work the Cygwin team has put in to porting the GNU utilities
to Windows is greatly admired. However the GNU team generally uses
UNIX systems and do not have access to Cygwin systems. Most of us
can't help. It would be most appreciated if you would make your bug
report directly to the Cygwin folks. They are the experts and best
suited to handle the problem.

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ 
      Cygwin Home Page 
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/bugs.html 
      Cygwin Bug Report Guidelines. This is a good reference for
      general bug reporting.

I did not even think that windows supported file modes.  That is a
unix filesystem behavior.  Most likely cygwin needed to work around
not having it.

Bob

> and have problems changing the file access permissions:
> 
> address@hidden ~
> $ ls -l .netrc
> -rw-r--r--    1 Administ Administ      130 Nov 14 11:59 .netrc
> 
> address@hidden ~
> $ chmod -v 600 .netrc
> mode of `.netrc' changed to 0600 (rw-------)
> 
> address@hidden ~
> $ ls -l .netrc
> -rw-r--r--    1 Administ Administ      130 Nov 14 11:59 .netrc
> 
> 
> On the Windows environment a tested with different constellations
> for the file properties but nothing works.
> Is this a bug or a mistake by me?
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> Ingo Affa