On 02/15/2011 09:52 AM, hardya wrote: > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ ls -l Simulation > -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ chmod -v 666 Simulation > mode of `Simulation' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-) > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ ls -l Simulation > -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation
Is this on a FAT or remote drive, perhaps? FAT doesn't have permissions, therefore cygwin fakes those permissions, and fakes chmod() as success rather than an error, when it's really just a no-op on losing file systems. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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