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On 2025-02-09 08:01, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> Testcase:
> 
> $ uname -r
> 3.5.7-1.x86_64
> 
> $ cygcheck -f /bin/chmod
> coreutils-9.0-1
> 
> $ mkdir dir
> 
> $ touch dir/file
> 
> $ chmod -R -v g-w dir; echo $?
> mode of 'dir' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
> mode of 'dir/file' retained as 0644 (rw-r--r--)
> 0
> 
> $ ln -s file dir/link
> 
> $ chmod -R -v g-w dir; echo $?
> mode of 'dir' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
> mode of 'dir/file' retained as 0644 (rw-r--r--)
> neither symbolic link 'dir/link' nor referent has been changed
> 1
> 
> $ chmod -R g-w dir; echo $?
> 1
> 
> $ chmod -v g-w dir dir/file dir/link; echo $?
> mode of 'dir' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
> mode of 'dir/file' retained as 0644 (rw-r--r--)
> mode of 'dir/link' retained as 0644 (rw-r--r--)
> 0
> 
> $ chmod -R -v g+w dir; echo $?
> mode of 'dir' changed from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to 0775 (rwxrwxr-x)
> mode of 'dir/file' changed from 0644 (rw-r--r--) to 0664 (rw-rw-r--)
> neither symbolic link 'dir/link' nor referent has been changed
> 1
> 
> $ chmod -R g-w dir; echo $?
> 1
> 
> Exit status 1 does not occur with chmod from coreutils 8.32-1.

A major change in coreutils 9 was to use the f...at() directory relative 
functions, so the error may be related to that symlink, unreported due to a bug 
(in our/my patches, underlying, or upstream):

EOPNOTSUPP	The  AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW bit is set in the flag argument, path names 
a symbolic link, and the system does not support changing the mode of a symbolic 
link.

Appears that it is a known bug and should have been fixed upstream; see the test 
release announcement for many chmod fixes and changes including more options:

	https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2025-January/012042.html

"...
2022-04-15	9.1

Bug fixes

- chmod -R no longer exits with error status when encountering symlinks.
   All files would be processed correctly, but the exit status was incorrect.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
..."

If you can, please check again with coreutils test 9.5.
I am working on updating to 9.6, will recheck as part of that, and fix or report 
a regression, if an issue.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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