[SWLUG] mystery file permissions

[Edward]

On Saturday 21 September 2002 22:07, bascule wrote:

> i have an mp3 directory on a vfat partition mounted at boot with the
--snip--
> i've been editing tags as an ordinary user and discovered that some files
> are denied editing access as follows:
>
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      3610881 Sep 21 21:18 12_pulp -
> mis-shapes.mp3*
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      3526890 Sep 21 21:18 13_ocean colour
> scene -
> travellers tune.mp3*
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      4107283 Sep 23  2000 14_sheryl crow -
> everyday is a winding road.mp3*
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      3531754 Sep 23  2000 15_james - shes a
> star.mp3*
>
> how can this be as these files are on a vfat partition? one or the other
> fair enough - depending on umask etc. but both sets of permssions, in the
> same directory?

I know little or nothing about this, but I have just done an ls -l on my C 
drive and a few files come up with different permissions eg for umask
-rwxr-xr-x :-
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        22461 Jul 29 14:39 suhdlog.dat*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       493116 Jul 29 14:39 system.1st*

As they are all system type files and presumably hidden or writeprotected in 
Win, I can only assume that Linux is clever enough to recognise this.  I 
haven't booted into Win for ages, so I am afraid I leave it to someone else 
to try setting permissions in Win and seeing what Linux does with them.

Edward