Hans Ecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way that chmod could first see if the requested status > change has already been fulfilled, and skip files where it would not > change anything?
Offhand I don't see why not. POSIX allows this behavior. > I can see that this would slow chmod down (one more stat (2) call per > file) It shouldn't be a problem, as it typically does the stat anyway. There is the little matter of coding up this performance-improvement reliably, though.... _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
