* chmod questions
@ 2013-08-07 18:33 Drew Adams
2013-08-07 18:48 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2013-08-07 18:49 ` J. David Boyd
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From: Drew Adams @ 2013-08-07 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
I have read various info regarding trying to make Cygwin's `chmod'
work as (I) expected, including the Cygwin FAQ and user guide.
I am using Windows 7 with an NTFS disk. My user and group are
defined as they should be AFAIK.
Two questions in this regard:
. is "chmod a-w" supposed to set the Windows Read-only attribute
on Windows 7?
. is "chmod a-w" supposed to cause "ls -l" to show -r-r-r on
Windows 7?
When I do `chmod a-w' it does not seem to have any effect. The
target file is still writable. Can someone please tell me what
I'm missing? Thx.
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* Re: chmod questions
2013-08-07 18:33 chmod questions Drew Adams
@ 2013-08-07 18:48 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2013-08-07 18:49 ` J. David Boyd
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From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) @ 2013-08-07 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 8/7/2013 2:33 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
> I have read various info regarding trying to make Cygwin's `chmod'
> work as (I) expected, including the Cygwin FAQ and user guide.
> I am using Windows 7 with an NTFS disk. My user and group are
> defined as they should be AFAIK.
>
> Two questions in this regard:
>
> . is "chmod a-w" supposed to set the Windows Read-only attribute
> on Windows 7?
No.
> . is "chmod a-w" supposed to cause "ls -l" to show -r-r-r on
> Windows 7?
Not exactly. More precisely, it will remove the write permissions for
all.
> When I do `chmod a-w' it does not seem to have any effect. The
> target file is still writable. Can someone please tell me what
> I'm missing? Thx.
I'm assuming that you're not using the exact syntax that you have
above. This works for me:
$ ls -l
total 23302
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lhall None 72393 Jun 17 12:46 a.exe*
-rw-r--r-- 1 lhall None 84 Jun 17 12:45 helloworld.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 lhall None 587 Jun 17 12:45 helloworld.o
$ attrib
A C:\tmp\junk\a.exe
A C:\tmp\junk\helloworld.c
A C:\tmp\junk\helloworld.o
$ chmod -w *
$ ls -l
total 23302
-r-xr-xr-x 1 lhall None 72393 Jun 17 12:46 a.exe*
-r--r--r-- 1 lhall None 84 Jun 17 12:45 helloworld.c
-r--r--r-- 1 lhall None 587 Jun 17 12:45 helloworld.o
$ attrib
A C:\tmp\junk\a.exe
A C:\tmp\junk\helloworld.c
A C:\tmp\junk\helloworld.o
Of course, whatever your umask setting is comes into play as well.
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* Re: chmod questions
2013-08-07 18:33 chmod questions Drew Adams
2013-08-07 18:48 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
@ 2013-08-07 18:49 ` J. David Boyd
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: J. David Boyd @ 2013-08-07 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I have read various info regarding trying to make Cygwin's `chmod'
> work as (I) expected, including the Cygwin FAQ and user guide.
> I am using Windows 7 with an NTFS disk. My user and group are
> defined as they should be AFAIK.
>
> Two questions in this regard:
>
> . is "chmod a-w" supposed to set the Windows Read-only attribute
> on Windows 7?
>
> . is "chmod a-w" supposed to cause "ls -l" to show -r-r-r on
> Windows 7?
>
> When I do `chmod a-w' it does not seem to have any effect. The
> target file is still writable. Can someone please tell me what
> I'm missing? Thx.
Works for me.
Here's a file on my system:
$ ls -ltr boxes.txt
-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 A4J0PZZ Administrators 45 Aug 5 12:46 boxes.txt
When I run chmod a-w boxes.txt, I get
$ ls -ltr boxes.txt
-r--r--r--+ 1 A4J0PZZ Administrators 45 Aug 5 12:46 boxes.txt
and the file is no longer writeable.
That's not what you are seeing? I'm on Windows 7 with an NTFS disk as well.
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