On Jan 26 16:30, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote: > Allow fchmodat with the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag to succeed on > non-symlinks. Previously it always failed, as it does on Linux. But > POSIX permits it to succeed on non-symlinks even if it fails on > symlinks. > > The reason for following POSIX rather than Linux is to make gnulib > report that fchmodat works on Cygwin. This improves the efficiency of > packages like GNU tar that use gnulib's fchmodat module. Previously > such packages would use a gnulib replacement for fchmodat on Cygwin.
Wait, what? So if Cygwin behaves like Linux, gnulib treats fchmodat as non-working? So what does gnulib do on a Linux system? Does it use its own fchmodat there, too? Puzzled, Corinna
