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Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Oct 9, 2005, 03:43 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>These are not real attributes, cygwin emulates them from the names,
>>like .exe will always be 0755, for example.
> 
> Ouch.  Is this true in general, or only on FAT-derived
> filesystems?
> 
> We may need to worry about this on the core side after all.
> Some people need to mount FAT even on Linux systems, 
> 
At least on Cygwin/NTFS, you can do chmod just fine.
	-hpa
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Message 17 of 18 in “Seeing various mode changes on cygwin”
  1. Jonas FonsecaOct 8, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2005
  3. Alex RiesenOct 8, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsOct 9, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 9, 2005
  7. Daniel BarkalowOct 10, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2005
  9. Daniel BarkalowOct 10, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  11. Add ".git/config" file parserLinus Torvalds, Oct 10, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  13. H. Peter AnvinOct 10, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  16. Use core.filemode.Junio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2005
  17. H. Peter AnvinOct 9, 2005
  18. Alex RiesenOct 9, 2005

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