chmod

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Lorenzo,

This doesn't seem to be XFree-related, so the proper list is <cygwin at
cygwin dot com>.  I've redirected this there.

More replies inline below.

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Lorenzo Travaglio wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've sent to myself from my office a little bash program. With Xterm it is
> impossible to change the peremissions even if 'chmod -v' says that new
> permissions have take place. I have no idea about, do you have one?
>
> Thank you

The FAQ is your friend: <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC45>
However, that entry is missing one important bit: if you're on a FAT32
filesystem, you're out of luck as well.
	Igor
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