Subject: Re: bug#11108: [PATCH] chmod: fix symlink race condition

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:28:01 -0700

On 03/28/2012 01:13 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>     $ ./chmod u+w f
>     ./chmod: changing permissions of 'f': Operation not supported

Yeouch.  I undid the change for now.
Hmm, why did "make check" work for me?
I'll have to investigate later, alas.