Hi Michael, On Sunday 02 January 2011 10:09:34 Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 10:24:47PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > >Attached patch is a quick implementation that behaves as expected. It > >works by opening (O_RDONLY) the files and using fchmod afterwards. This > >of course implies that files and directories to be chmod(1)ed need to be > >at least O_RDONLY. I couldn't figure out another way to implement this > >option safely. > > That's not what -h does on the other commands; in those cases they use > lchown to change the ownership of the symlink itself--and there's no > corresponding lchmod.
Yes, that's exactly the reason why I implemented it that way. FreeBSD is the only OS that I know that provides lchmod(2) Regards, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
