From: "Peter Donald" <peter@apache.org>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:10, Jesse Stockall wrote:
> > I need to be able to toggle the read-only flag for some files on
> > Windows. I'm able to do this with attrib.exe
> >
> > I created a new task (copy of chmod task) to use attrib & work only on
> > windows.
>
> kool.
>
> > I think a better idea would be to modify the chmod task so that is uses
> > chmod on Unix & attrib on Windows. Unfortunately there are different
> > permissions available on Unix & Windows so the task would have to be
> > smart enough to use -R on Windows & +w on Unix to toggle the write
> > permission.
>
> Theres also the difficulty that some windows platforms (ie cygwin)
actually
> support chmod to some degree or another. So we would be blocking people
who
> already used chmod on win32.
Perhaps checking for existence of chmod before using attrib.exe
on windows would be neat?
> Pete
>
Cheers,
Magesh
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