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Re: [BUG] 'chmod' broken on FAT32 drive with Cygwin 1.5.19
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: "Jerry D. Hedden" <jerry at hedden dot us>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:01:35 +0000
- Subject: Re: [BUG] 'chmod' broken on FAT32 drive with Cygwin 1.5.19
> 'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
Welcome to the wonderful world of FAT32. (NTFS is MUCH nicer).
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod
There are inherently NO permissions on FAT32, with no way
to add it, so cygwin fakes success on chmod without doing
anything.
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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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