Inconsistent results from ls

Wed Jan 12 09:13:28 GMT 2022

On Jan 11 18:30, David wrote:
> Folks
>> I tried executing 'ls -l' on a file. I addressed the file in various ways,
> with my current directory (in Windows) set to c:\temp
>> ls -l test.txt
> ls -l /cygdrive/c/temp/test.txt
> ls -l
> ls -l *
> ls -l c:/temp/test.txt
>>> In all cases, the owner, group, date and size are the same, as I would hope
> them to be. However, the last result showed a mode setting displayed was
> different than the value shown in the others. This doesn't seem right, and
> I'm not sure what the correct value should be. Any ideas?

As soon as you use Windows path syntax, file ACLs are ignored
and permissions are just faked.
Corinna