Re: Use of chmod in gnulib

2020-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:18 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 3/22/20 10:17 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > According to the Autoconf manual, commands like 'chmod +x' should be > > avoided in favor of 'chmod a+x'. I believe the same applies to 'chmod > > -w' and friends. Also see > > https://www.gnu.o

Re: Use of chmod in gnulib

2020-03-22 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/22/20 10:17 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: According to the Autoconf manual, commands like 'chmod +x' should be avoided in favor of 'chmod a+x'. I believe the same applies to 'chmod -w' and friends. Also see https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Limitations-of-Usua

Use of chmod in gnulib

2020-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, According to the Autoconf manual, commands like 'chmod +x' should be avoided in favor of 'chmod a+x'. I believe the same applies to 'chmod -w' and friends. Also see https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Limitations-of-Usual-Tools.html. It looks like the