On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:19:38AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:30:46AM +0200, you wrote: > >It would be nice if chmod (and chown and chgrp) only made changes to > >inodes when necessary so as not to change the ctime of files. > > I'm fairly certain there have also been complaints about these utilities > not resetting the inode even when not necessary.
That is certainly possible, if that is normal POSIX behavior. > I'd suggest using them in conjunction with find(1) if you only want to > modify files that don't match a particular setting. Yup. But it would be so much more elegant if chmod just Did The Right Thing. Can I ask you to pass along this wishlist item to upstream and maybe ask them why ctime must be modified even when the permissions are not? I would really like to know why. -- Erik Rossen OpenPGP key: 2935D0B9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do not know what http://people.linux-gull.ch/rossen to do, start with RTFM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
