On Wed, 28 May 2008, bob davis wrote:
>
> On a offtopic note(well for the list at least)
Would be on-topic for the perl-win32-users mailing list. :)
> perl -e "print chmod 0777 'test.txt'"
> on ntfs
> works under cygwin
> but fails under strawberry.
>
> Is this true of other win32 dists?
Yes. From `perldoc perlport`:
chmod Only limited meaning. Disabling/enabling write permission is
mapped to locking/unlocking the file. (Mac OS)
Only good for changing "owner" read-write access, "group", and
"other" bits are meaningless. (Win32)
Only good for changing "owner" and "other" read-write access.
(RISC OS)
Access permissions are mapped onto VOS access-control list
changes. (VOS)
The actual permissions set depend on the value of the "CYGWIN"
in the SYSTEM environment settings. (Cygwin)
Cheers,
-Jan
