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Re: chmod not working
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Vincent Labella wrote:
> Hello,
> After applying the recent updates I can't get chmod to work.
>
> chmod a+x test.pl
> does nothing
>
> with -v option I get
> mode of test.pl changed to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
>
> but ls -la gives:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 4795 Feb 6 12:06 test.pl
>
> any suggestions? is this a mounting issue?
No chance on FAT, only NTFS supports UNIX like modes and only
when the env var CYGWIN contains "ntsec".
http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Corinna
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