RE: [BUG] 'chmod' broken on FAT32 drive with Cygwin 1.5.19

2006-02-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 February 2006 15:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 3 08:42, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: >> 'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19 > > That's not a bug, it's a "feature" of FAT32. FAT and FAT32 have no way > to keep security information. Convert your filesystem to NTFS if

Re: [BUG] 'chmod' broken on FAT32 drive with Cygwin 1.5.19

2006-02-03 Thread Eric Blake
> 'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19 Welcome to the wonderful world of FAT32. (NTFS is MUCH nicer). http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod There are inherently NO permissions on FAT32, with no way to add it, so cygwin fakes success on chmod without doing any

Re: [BUG] 'chmod' broken on FAT32 drive with Cygwin 1.5.19

2006-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 3 08:42, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > 'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19 That's not a bug, it's a "feature" of FAT32. FAT and FAT32 have no way to keep security information. Convert your filesystem to NTFS if you want that. And, just in case somebody mentiones the 'nte

[BUG] 'chmod' broken on FAT32 drive with Cygwin 1.5.19

2006-02-03 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19 81 tmp > ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 jhedden Domain Users 0 Feb 3 10:27 dummy.txt 82 tmp > chmod 666 dummy.txt 83 tmp > ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 jhedden Domain Users 0 Feb 3 10:27 dummy.txt Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current Syste