I am running cgwin (for omnet++, but that's a BTW) on Windows 7 (NTFS). I cannot chmode files I untarred into a folder and I cannot chmod a file I create in cgwin myself.
I understood that you could do this if the file system was NTFS. The bottom line is I have an executable that is not executable. In addition to solving that though it might be nice to get a better understanding. What I don't understand is that if I run a make.exe (still me as user I presume) the make process manages to produce a file with executable permissions and presumably that's not just due to the directory, since the files I create aren't executable and cannot be made so. I started to read the netsec page ref'd from the faq, but it's a big learning curve and I had hoped there was a short answer, though I don't seem to be able to find it any where. Perhaps I am using cgwin for not what was intended and I should go ahead and do a full linux install? Any help or advice greatly appreciated for this newbie. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Newbie-confused-about-chmod-tp30931008p30931008.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
