Re: chmod and DOS vs POSIX paths

2010-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU On Jan 25 11:25, brassrat wrote: > > I agree that the having an R/O attribute conflicts with the concept of ACLS; > however, it is not true that the chmod command does not change this flag. > For example, > if you chmod +w a file with the R/O flag 'set' the R/O

Re: chmod and DOS vs POSIX paths

2010-01-25 Thread brassrat
I agree that the having an R/O attribute conflicts with the concept of ACLS; however, it is not true that the chmod command does not change this flag. For example, if you chmod +w a file with the R/O flag 'set' the R/O flag is reset. (maybe this is a side-effect of the ACL-based processing withi

Re: chmod and DOS vs POSIX paths

2010-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 07:55, brassrat wrote: > > The source control package i use at work is sensitive to the 'read-only' > attribute of Windows files. > prior to 1.7, the command 'chmod -w DIR/FILE' worked fine. > now, with 1.7, chmod -w FILE no longer sets the read-only attribute - i > guess because > fort