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Re: [Fwd: Re: perl test fails]
Thank you Elfyn and Jurgen. A few moment's thought would have reminded
me that file permissions are handled differently on NT. ;)
Regards
Rob
Elfyn McBratney wrote:
Rob Clack wrote:
[...]
So there seems to be a couple of weensy buggettes there, though I'm not
suggesting anyone bother to fix them unless they happen to be working
there anyway. They're not serious bugs, but they did obscure the real
problem and waste quite a lot of my and several other people's time.
1. chmod should surely change the permissions whatever the contents of
the file, and if it doesn't, it should issue a message. Silent failure
is not very friendly.
If your on an NT variant all you have to do is set CYGWIN=ntsec (If you want
support for NT extended attributes you can add `ntea', too). However, on
win9x the `ch*' family of calls retrun success (IIRC), as the underlying OS
does not support security in the way NT does. I might be slightly wrong about
the win9x but, though it's documented in either the User's Guide of the FAQ.
You can then use `ch{mod,own,grp}' in the same way you would on Linux.
-- Elfyn
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