bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/07/2012 02:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 02/07/2012 07:59 AM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: >> I was wondering wether I couldn't write something like >> >> if [not on NTFS filesystem] then >> chmod +x > > No doubt you can write something like that. > I don't use NTFS, so I'm not a good s

bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Eggert
On 02/07/2012 07:59 AM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > I was wondering wether I couldn't write something like > > if [not on NTFS filesystem] then > chmod +x No doubt you can write something like that. I don't use NTFS, so I'm not a good source of advice about the details.

bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-07 Thread francky . leyn
Dear Paul, thanks for your reply, but this was not what I meant. I have scripts that work fine on a full Linux platform (ext filesystem). However, if I use those scipts (that use chmod +x), I get a lot of warnings. Thing I dislike to see, and are confusing. I was wondering wether I couldn't writ

bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Eggert
On 02/07/2012 05:49 AM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > is there any way I could suppress the warning given by chmod +x? You can suppress all warnings with the shell command: chmod +x file 2>/dev/null;: This is usually not a good idea. The warnings are there for a reason.

bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-07 Thread francky . leyn
Dear Bob, is there any way I could suppress the warning given by chmod +x? Best regards, FRancky - Oorspronkelijk e-mail - > francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > > some more questions. > > I abstract a file system as something where each dir/file has a > > header > > where all properties r

bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-06 Thread Alan Curry
Bob Proulx writes: > > francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > > > There doesn't exist a hybrid file system that unites eg. NTFS and ext4? > > No. Not as far as I know. In the old days there was UMSDOS. A modern equivalent of UMSDOS is POSIX Overlay Filesystem (posixovl). It works in FUSE. http://so

bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-06 Thread Bob Proulx
francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > some more questions. > I abstract a file system as something where each dir/file has a header > where all properties reside. Yes. This information is stored in the Inode. You can read about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode > There doesn't exist a h

bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Francky Leyn wrote: > Dear Bob, > > thanks for your intervention. > The problem is a lot clearer to me right now. > > It is indead a Virtual Box on top of Windows 7 with an NTFS system > and the Linux virtual box is Ubuntu 11.04. NTFS doesn't have any concept of the same file modes as a Uni

bug#10735: chmod +x file

2012-02-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Pádraig Brady wrote: > francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > > ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~/.gvfs/account on stockholm/Documents/03 > > professional/structured_documentation$ chmod +x > > doc/filters_for_this_document > > chmod: changing permissions of `doc/filters_for_this_document': Operation > > no

bug#10735: chmod +x file

2012-02-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
tags 10735 notabug On 02/06/2012 02:23 PM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > > Hello, > > I perform the following: > > ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~/.gvfs/account on stockholm/Documents/03 > professional/structured_documentation$ ls -l doc/filters_for_this_document > -rwx-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu

bug#10735: chmod +x file

2012-02-06 Thread francky . leyn
Hello, I perform the following: ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~/.gvfs/account on stockholm/Documents/03 professional/structured_documentation$ ls -l doc/filters_for_this_document -rwx-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 98 2012-02-06 14:47 doc/filters_for_this_document ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~/.gvfs/account