hi... In the description for
chmod when calling info chmod it is said: " `chmod' never changes the permissions of symbolic links, since the `chmod' system call cannot change their permissions. This is not a problem since the permissions of symbolic links are never used. However, for each symbolic link listed on the command line, `chmod' changes the permissions of the pointed-to file. In contrast, `chmod' ignores symbolic links encountered during recursive directory traversals. " But I experienced on different systems, that the last sentence is not true: chmod DOES follow smbolic links during recursive directory traversals - they are NOT ignored. What I did: chmod 700 * -R and there where subdirectories which had symbolic links in it pointing to other directories - these other directories (and their subdirectories) where affected from the chmod command too... And this behaviour is in contrast to chown which (per default) does NOT follow symbolic links. Is this a bug in the description? Or with the command chmod? Best regards, Christoph Bergmann PS: Calling "man chmod" gives: GNU fileutils 4.0 November 1998 Maybe this is already fixed in a newer version? _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
