b15:chmod does not work

[Corinna Vinschen]

"Purdom, Rick W." wrote:
> 
> chmod will only add/remove the write permission for the owner of the file -
> no others are
> affected even though chmod verbose reports that they were changed

This is expected behaviour if your are either using FAT filesystem
or NTFS without setting the CYGWIN env variable to contain the
string `ntsec' (besides possible others).

Try reading the online documentation:

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/docs.html

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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