Re: File permissions and ownership changes between Unix and Cygwin

2005-12-17 Thread surendar jeyadev
Brian, --- Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > surendar jeyadev wrote: > As far as I understand it, the basic ISO9660 format > does not have any > fields to store file attributes such as owner or > permissions. So on > mounting such a disc, Windows and/or Cygwin will > have to synthesize

Re: File permissions and ownership changes between Unix and Cygwin

2005-12-17 Thread Brian Dessent
surendar jeyadev wrote: > I understand that this is something to do with > 'mkisofs', > but I was wondering if there is a Cygwin trick that I > am missing. I would like burn disks so that they have > the right permissions and ownerships when used on a > Unix/Linux machine. In particualar, I want '

File permissions and ownership changes between Unix and Cygwin

2005-12-17 Thread surendar jeyadev
I have been successful in using 'mkisofs' and 'cdrecord' (from Joerg Schilling)to burn CDs using Cygwin. One thing that is strange is the change in file permissions and ownership. I used 'chown' to (recursively) change the entire filesystem to be burned onto the CD so that the owner was 'SYSTEM'