With Linux, these commands produce expected results: $ cd /tmp $ touch alpha.txt $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?" 0 $ chmod -r alpha.txt $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?" 1 $ chmod +r alpha.txt $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?" 0
However with Cygwin, unexpected results are produced: $ cd /tmp $ touch alpha.txt $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?" 0 $ chmod -r alpha.txt $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?" 0 It seems Cygwin is not able to produce non-readable files. -- 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
