-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Lloyd Zusman on 10/27/2006 5:49 AM: > >>> There don't seem to be any extensions to chmod that will accomplish >>> this, >> There is no concept of hidden or system as a file attribute in Linux. >> It's achieved via a leading dot in the file name... > > I was mentioning _extensions_ to the chmod command, not the standard > Linux syntax. The cygwin ps command has the "-W, --windows" extension, > and I was commenting on the fact that the cygwin chmod command doesn't > have anything similar that might deal with Windows-specific file attributes.
I'm not going to write such an extension to chmod. But http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC - if you want to write it, I will consider adding it to coreutils. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFQfYs84KuGfSFAYARAikLAKCwWqDFOLC2sZSPUMiOXnhX4WlVegCgzWIT qSvngiOd/rS8a6n8Xs6zHEQ= =hc4h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
