Subject: Re: bug#12494: 0 exit status even when chmod fails

From: Sven Joachim <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:35:27 +0200

On 2012-09-24 21:25 +0200, Alan Curry wrote:

> If the mount man page disagrees with the kernel, it's still a bug in the man
> page at least.

Possibly, but the mount manpage is not part of coreutils.

> (Also, the rest of the world needs to work around extra stupidity because of
> rsync?)

No, all stupidity here belongs to the FAT filesystems.  And the kernel
devs thankfully have a strict policy of not breaking userspace, so it's
unlikely that the behavior of chmod(2) will ever be changed; in any case
there's nothing coreutils can do.

Regards,
        Sven