I admit I'm stubborn about this topic but I'd like to propose the change of chmod implementation. I thing, it would be nice if the 'chmod +/-w' would have in the discussed case the same functionality as the Windows' command 'attrib'. See please the appended screenshot.
U:\tmp>ls -l yahoo -rw-r--r-- 1 ropach mkpasswd 5 Apr 29 07:35 yahoo U:\tmp>attrib +r yahoo U:\tmp>ls -l yahoo -r--r--r-- 1 ropach mkpasswd 5 Apr 29 07:35 yahoo U:\tmp>attrib -r yahoo U:\tmp>ls -l yahoo -rw-r--r-- 1 ropach mkpasswd 5 Apr 29 07:35 yahoo U:\tmp>chmod -w yahoo chmod: changing permissions of `yahoo': Permission denied U:\tmp>ls -l yahoo -rw-r--r-- 1 ropach mkpasswd 5 Apr 29 07:35 yahoo U:\tmp>chmod +w yahoo chmod: changing permissions of `yahoo': Permission denied U:\tmp>ls -l yahoo -rw-r--r-- 1 ropach mkpasswd 5 Apr 29 07:35 yahoo Roman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
