Questions on cygwin filemode in WindowsXP

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 1 15:39:00 GMT 2004


On Apr  1 07:15, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Yufeng Xiong wrote:
> 
> >1. What is the '+' in the file mode? I know it has something to do with 
> >file
> >permission, after
> >the editing, my web server/PHP does not have permission to open test.php
> >anymore
> >
> I believe the "+" indicates that there are some Windows permissions that 
> do not map to the Unix-style user/group/other.  For example, if I create 

Not quite right.  Posix allows additional permissions as well.  The '+'
is documented in the ls man page btw.


Corinna

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