Andrey Repin writes: > Perl is known to have "special" treatment of file permissions.
It's perfectly valid to do this from a POSIX perspective and Perl is not the only program to do this (but it's easier to show the result with Perl). As far as POSIX is concerned, the mode bits that Cygwin presents are wrong given the actual access rights of the underlying Windows DACL. > This issue has been raised in the list before. By me, so yes I know. What's your point? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- 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