Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-09-24 21:25 +0200, Alan Curry wrote: > >> If the mount man page disagrees with the kernel, it's still a bug in the man >> page at least. > > Possibly, but the mount manpage is not part of coreutils. > >> (Also, the rest of the world needs to work around extra stupidity because of >> rsync?) > > No, all stupidity here belongs to the FAT filesystems. And the kernel > devs thankfully have a strict policy of not breaking userspace, so it's > unlikely that the behavior of chmod(2) will ever be changed; in any case > there's nothing coreutils can do.
Thanks for explaining. I've closed this bug.
