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Re: "chmod a+x filename" shows no effect on W2K


Feel free to suspect cockpit errors :-)

But all I can say is that chmod didn't work, 
and then I made zero changes, and while I was 
sending emails to the list, chmod started 
working again. The only possible change I made 
to my system was opening or closing IIRC an 
unrelated windows application. Maybe that was 
it?

Maybe I shouldn't try chmod-ing a file that 
is on a network share and mapped locally to 
Z:/ and mounted to /home/pbuckley for cygwin?

The discussion is in two threads- 

"chmod/chown + ntsec doesn't work"
"OpenSSH and RSA authentication problem"

pgb

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:32:10PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >> Peter Buckley schrieb am 2001-10-09 12:16:
> >
> >Set CYGWIN=tty andwhatyoulike
> >as systemwide environment variable so it is accessible by
> >all processes.
> >
> >>Also be aware that chmod may sporadically not work and
> >>then work. Just for no reason, and it isn't repeatable.
> >
> >Never seen such a behaviour.
> 
> Me neither.
> 
> AFAIK, we've had exactly one report of this behavior so I think
> it is premature to offer this as a general caveat to any use who
> uses CYGWIN=ntsec.  I would suspect cockpit errors first.
> 
> cgf
> 
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