chmod in cygwin

[John Miller]

I hope this isn't a stupid question. When I try to use chmod, it doesn't do 
what I expect.
See below. Am I doing something wrong? I'm running Windows NT 4.0 sp6. I've 
tried with Windows 2000 with same results.

Thanks
-John


address@hidden /test
$ ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 administ None           17 Feb  4 08:43 test
-rw-r--r--   1 administ None           26 Feb  4 08:32 test2

address@hidden /test
$ chmod -v 777 test2
mode of test2 changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)

address@hidden /test
$ ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 administ None           17 Feb  4 08:43 test
-rw-r--r--   1 administ None           26 Feb  4 08:32 test2

address@hidden /test
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