From: bartels > > On 12/30/2013 06:16 AM, Nithin Kurien wrote: > > When I type the following sequence of commands: > > > > cd ~; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0700 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" sample; > > rm -rf sample; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0755 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" > > sample > > > > the output is: > > > > 770 1001 513 > > 775 1001 513 > > > > Why is chmod not working? > > > > OS: Windows 8 Pro 64-bit > > Cygwin Setup.exe Version: 2.831 (32-bit) > > That looks fine to me. > What do you expect?
Presumably because when the OP asked for 700 he got 770, and when he asked for 755 he got 775. --Ken Nellis -- 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
