Re: CHMOD not changing mode

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

We need to get this clearly spelled out in the FAQ.  The "EA DATA. SF" file
is only used on FAT partitions IF the "ntea" flag is set in the CYGWIN
environment variable.  If "ntea" is not set or if the partition is  NTFS,
the "EA DATA. SF" file is NOT used at all.  "ntea" MUST be set for chmod to
have any effect on permissions.  "EA DATA. SF" will be created on all FAT
partitions that the Cygwin tools use if "ntea" is set, including floppies.
This file can grow VERY large and deleting it requires you to be  outside
Windows.  There are no special permissions on the "EA DATA. SF" file AFAIK.

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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At 02:48 PM 12/9/98 +0100, Holger Szillat wrote: 
>>>>
> Hi folks,
> by the way, I saw this behaviour of chmod on my WinNT/Cygnus B20 also and it still drives me crazy. I tried to make a shell-script executable and though chmod did not complain, the mode did not change at all.
>   
> I recently read that the EADATA.SF-file is used by the Cygnus-Tools to store the stuff associated with a file. Could it be, that this file is normally not writable for a non-Admin user and therefore the attributes do not change ?? (Couldn't try it out at my computer yet, so just an idea ... :-)
>   
> Bye,
> Holger Szillat
>   
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> Von: Michael Hirmke <<mailto:mh@mike.franken.de>mh@mike.franken.de>
> An: <mailto:gnu-win32@cygnus.com>gnu-win32@cygnus.com <<mailto:gnu-win32@cygnus.com>gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
> Datum: Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 1998 13:50
> Betreff: Re: CHMOD not changing mode
>
> >Hi Brian,
> >
> >[...]
> >>I am trying to change the mode of a file to 777 using "chmod -v 777
> >>output.dat"
> >>Chmod reports:
> >>"mode of output.dat changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)"
> >>But the file mode does not change, as evidenced by an ls -l.
> >>
> >>Any tricks or simple solutions?
> >
> >Sure you are using the Cygnus chmod ?
> >This one normally doesn't tell you that it has changed mode.
> >
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Brian
> >
> >Bye.
> >Michael.
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