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chmod in cygwin
- From: John Miller <John_Miller at RedBack dot com>
- To: bug-fileutils at gnu dot org
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 09:33:32 -0800
- Subject: chmod in cygwin
I hope this isn't a stupid question. When I try to use chmod, it doesn't do
what I expect.
See below. Am I doing something wrong? I'm running Windows NT 4.0 sp6. I've
tried with Windows 2000 with same results.
Thanks
-John
administrator@WASHINGTON /test
$ ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 17 Feb 4 08:43 test
-rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 26 Feb 4 08:32 test2
administrator@WASHINGTON /test
$ chmod -v 777 test2
mode of test2 changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
administrator@WASHINGTON /test
$ ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 17 Feb 4 08:43 test
-rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 26 Feb 4 08:32 test2
administrator@WASHINGTON /test
$
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