Subject: bug#17035: [PATCH] chmod -c -R produces errors with special permissions

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 02:38:54 +0000

On 03/18/2014 11:41 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 03/18/2014 10:18 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 03/18/2014 07:45 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> The fix looks good.  It seems this bug was introduced
>>> with the change to FTS in 5.1.0 (released Dec 2003)
>>
>> Wasn't it commit v5.2.1-690-gbc580f6?
> 
> I think that restricted the issue to if (new_mode & (S_ISUID | S_ISGID | S_ISVTX))
> but the stat on the relative name was there previously?

But if that was the case then previous to v5.2.1 release
would have gotten the diagnostic without special mode bits,
which is unlikely as the issue would then very likely have been noticed.
So I dug a little further and the issue seems to be with where fts
was improved to not change directory when traversing in coreutils 6.0 in:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=c1994c16

Change is now pushed:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=09eda9ed

thanks,
Pádraig.