First, check here: "Why doesn't chmod work?":
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC37
--Chuck
Pamela O'Shea wrote:
> Hi,
> I am not fully sure if these have been reported before but an
> archive search didnt return any results.
> I have cygwin 1.3.2 release, and the mv and chmod commands seem to
> have a problem.
>
>
> 1. 'chmod' for example doesnt change *any* permissions for any file,
> example
>
> $ touch test
> $ ls -l test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 poshea None 0 Aug 17 14:15 test
> $ chmod 700 test
> $ ls -l test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 poshea None 0 Aug 17 14:15 test
>
>
> 2. Also 'mv' has this unusal behaviour:
>
> $ ls
> file1 file2 file3 testDirectory
> $ mv * testDirectory
> mv: cannon copy a direcoty, `testDirectory`, into itself,
>`testDirectory/testDirectory`
> $ cd testDirectory
> $ ls
> file1 file2 file3 testDirectory
>
> ..so it complains but still copies the directory anyway
>
> Regards,
> P.
>
> (o_
> //\
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>
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