Subject: Re: bug#50784: coreutils 9.0 sometimes gets spurious failures in chmod -R

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 00:37:31 +0200

On 9/24/21 22:02, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Tested equivalent patch is attached.

Nice small patch.
Maybe it's worth documenting in the enum where the "bad range" starts against which the
code later tests?
Furthermore, I think it's worth adding a NEWS entry and mentioning that this bug has been
introduced in v9.0, namely in v8.32-193-gbbb19b186.

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny