GNU bug report logs - #11108
chmod: fix symlink race condition

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:01:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Merged with 18280, 32772

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #33 received at 11108-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 11108-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11108: [PATCH] chmod: fix symlink race condition
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:01:22 +0000

On 28/03/2012 21:28, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.

Patch for this pushed at:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=v9.4-163-g425b8a2f5

Marking this as done.

cheers,
Pádraig.
This bug report was last modified 1 year and 118 days ago.

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