On 2019-12-23 16:47:59 +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote:
> [..] Especially with the H, L and P options we found many bugs in GNU
> coreutils, and keeping them in is essential if we want to claim that
> we are more or less POSIX compliant. [..]
Sorry I do not understand how this is meant. Looking at the
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 19:05:45 -0800
Michael Forney wrote:
Dear Michael,
> I can think of two possibilities here:
>
> 1. Remove the -H, -L, and -P options from chmod, always set r.follow =
> 'H', and call chmod(3) conditional on !S_ISLINK(st->st_mode).
> 2. Keep the -H, -L, and -P options, but us
