#60 chmod being ignored

[Steven Penny]

$ uname -a
MSYS_NT-6.1 Steven-PC 2.0.0(0.273/5/3) 2014-06-24 09:17 x86_64 Msys

$ touch foo.sh

$ chmod +x foo.sh

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 Steven None 0 Jul 26 06:59 foo.sh

[Zsolt M]

I'm having the same issue. As a nasty side effect after I cloned a GIT repo, and issued status, git believes there are local changes:

$ git clone git@github.com:rust-lang/rust.git
[...]

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   src/etc/adb_run_wrapper.sh
        modified:   src/etc/install.sh
        modified:   src/etc/mirror-all-snapshots.py
        modified:   src/etc/rustup.sh
        modified:   src/test/auxiliary/lint_output_format.rs
        modified:   src/test/pretty/issue-4264.pp
        modified:   src/test/run-make/mismatching-target-triples/bar.rs
        modified:   src/test/run-make/mismatching-target-triples/foo.rs
        modified:   src/test/run-make/pretty-expanded-hygiene/input.pp.rs
        modified:   src/test/run-make/pretty-expanded-hygiene/input.rs
        modified:   src/test/run-pass/attr-shebang.rs
        modified:   src/test/run-pass/shebang.rs

$ git diff src/etc/adb_run_wrapper.sh
diff --git a/src/etc/adb_run_wrapper.sh b/src/etc/adb_run_wrapper.sh
old mode 100755
new mode 100644

$ uname -a
MINGW32_NT-6.3 Z4ZEN 2.0.0(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-06 20:34 x86_64 Msys

[Zsolt M]

Please ignore my previous comment, my fstab got messed up, works like a charm now.

[Dani Moncayo]

I've just also had this problem. 'chmod' doesn't work and that seems to affect to git status/diff.

I did nothing with my /etc/fstab, so I don't know whats going on here.

[Steven Penny]

Hm, I figured changing /etc/fstab to

none / cygdrive acl

would fix it, but it does not

[David Macek]

MSYS2 sets noacl on its default mount points, that's why chmod has no effect.

As for the git problem, I can't reproduce it. Does git still have this issue on MSYS2? If so, what git distribution is that?

[Anonymous]

Having a similar issue with a build of finch. While the executable is executable the plugins are not.

[David Macek]

I don't think enabling ACL changes from MSYS2 would produce any good, the system is supposed to integrate well with the rest of Windows, while chmod'ing doesn't. Further discussion is possible.