On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:20:15PM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 05:32:28PM -0400, Pierre A dot Humblet wrote: > > I think I see what the problem is. Is it correct that you do not have > > permission to change the permissions on that drive (even in the File > > Properties box)? > > I'm not sure what you mean. When I open the Properties of file x, I can change > its attributes (Read-only in this case) without problems, and Cygwin's ls > reflects those changes properly. It's just chmod that doesn't work.
Right, but can you change the permissions (Security Tab)? > This sounds like a 1.5.10 regression, no? I actually saw the opposite problem > first: files that are -r--r--r-- I cannot chmod +w, whereas I can change them > using the Properties dialog. Yes, it's a regression and there is a simple fix. It will probably be in the next snapshot. Thanks for the feedback. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
