On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 04:28:36PM -0800, Jeremy Lin wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to get a program running on Cygwin, but this program depends >on being able to change permissions on a named pipe. chmod doesn't >actually seem to work for this, but it doesn't return nonzero either. > >From what I can see, the mode argument in the initial mkfifo call is >respected, but I can't actually change the mode after it's been created. > >Is this a known limitation, or am I missing something? I also tried >looking at the cygwin dll source to see how chmod is implemented, but >haven't had much luck finding the right spot as of yet (if it's even in >that particular package), so any pointers there would be appreciated.
fgrep chmod *.cc seems to do a wonderful job finding several likely suspects for where chmod would be implemented. cgf -- 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/
