> not sure if it a actual bug or not, but chmod reports incorrectly when > it tries to modify file permissions on file systems it cannot handle, > e.g. vfat. The --verbose switch reports that the switch is successful, > but a quick ls -l of the file in question shows that the permissions are > not changed (for vfat, the file system driver default mounts everything > as owner/group root, permissions 755).
Since windows has no concept of owner/group/mode what would one have chmod do on those systems? I have never used it there but assume that it must have cygwin emulated behavior or something. It is probably a noop so that scripts don't fail just for that reason. > this is in contrast to chown, which verbosely reports that the operation > is not permitted (i.e., attempting to chown a file on a vfat partition), > even as root. Here is a stock repy. Bob http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/core-utils-faq.html#I%20use%20the%20Cygwin%20toolset%20and%20I%20have%20a%20problem. The hard work the Cygwin team has put in to developing the GNU Project on Windows is greatly admired. However the GNU team generally uses GNU Operating Systems and do not have access to Cygwin systems or MS-Windows systems which means that most of us can't help you. It would be most appreciated if you would make your bug report directly to the Cygwin folks. They are the experts and best suited to handle your problem. http://cygwin.com/ Cygwin Home Page http://cygwin.com/faq/ Cygwin FAQ. Most excellent! http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Cygwin Bug Report Guidelines. This is a good reference for general bug reporting. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
