Thanks David for the help.
The getfacl/setfacl command works fine.
And the setting change in xmeacs also works.
I'm using WindowsXP @Home, it does not seem to have anything available for
changing file permissions from Windows itself, does anybody know how to do
it ?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Rothenberger" <daveroth@acm.org>
To: "Yufeng Xiong" <yufengxiong@comcast.net>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Questions on cygwin filemode in WindowsXP
Yufeng Xiong wrote:
1. What is the '+' in the file mode? I know it has something to do with
file
permission, after
the editing, my web server/PHP does not have permission to open test.php
anymore
I believe the "+" indicates that there are some Windows permissions that
do not map to the Unix-style user/group/other. For example, if I create
a new file using cygwin (say, with touch), and then open the file's
properties with Windows and explicitly add permission for another user
to modify the file, I see the "+".
2. How do I set the '+' in mode manually? I used 'fstat' on the two files
and it shows the exact
same mode (o100700).
Well, you can copy all the file attributes from one file (sourceFile) to
another (destFile) with a command like this:
% getfacl - sourceFile | setfacl -f- destFile
3. Why xemacs changed the file mode? Could it be because of different
file
system?
Do "M-x customize-apropros" on "backup-by-copying". The default
behavior is to move the old file to the backup file and then create a
new file. If you set this option on (non-nil), the backup copy will be
made as a copy and the original file will be modified. This will
preserve the extra file permissions on the original file (although the
backup copy won't have them).
HTH,
Dave