On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:30:46AM +0200, you wrote:
It would be nice if chmod (and chown and chgrp) only made changes to inodes when necessary so as not to change the ctime of files.
I'm fairly certain there have also been complaints about these utilities not resetting the inode even when not necessary. I'd suggest using them in conjunction with find(1) if you only want to modify files that don't match a particular setting.
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