GNU bug report logs - #12494
0 exit status even when chmod fails

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Georgiy Treyvus <georgiytreyvus <at> riseup.net>

Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: "Alan Curry" <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>
Cc: 12494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12494: 0 exit status even when chmod fails
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
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