Re: [Mingw-msys] How do I recreate the MSYS distribution?
On Sunday 29 July 2007 20:16, Sunil wrote:
> I give the following command:
> $ chmod -vR 777 /usr/local/share/
> mode of `/usr/local/share' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
> mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
> mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp-2.0.m4' changed to 0777
> (rwxrwxrwx) mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp-2.0.m4/tyr'
> changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
>
> It shows that the permissions have been changed correctly.
> But they are not shown as changed when I ls the same folder.
>
> $ ls -lg /usr/local/share/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 wiseguy Administ 0 Jul 28 17:14 aclocal
>
> Is there something funky going on?
No. Woe32 file system attributes simply don't match the *nix model `ls'
expects. You should be able to access the files, as you require; don't
place too much faith in the permissions shown by `ls'.
Regards,
Keith.
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