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chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files
- From: <FischRon dot external at infineon dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:56:40 +0200
- Subject: chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files
From one day to the next, I can't chmod any old files anymore (error
message:
"permission denied"), but when I create a new file, I can chmod it
without
problems:
chmod 0777 some_old_file
=> ... Permission denied
touch new_file
chmod 0777 new_file
=> works fine.
My first thought was that the user id might mysteriously have changed
over night,
but a listing of the files with
ls -ln
and a check of my user id with
id -u
confirms that the same numeric user id is used all the time.
I'm running cygwin under Windows 2000. My CYGWIN variable has the value:
tty ntsec smbntsec
Any idea what is going wrong?
Ronald
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