DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 delorie.com 519F2Emt3790112 Authentication-Results: delorie.com; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=cygwin.com Authentication-Results: delorie.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cygwin.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 delorie.com 519F2Emt3790112 Authentication-Results: delorie.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key, unprotected) header.d=cygwin.com header.i=@cygwin.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=default header.b=MK/nJVcm X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 01FB23858C3A DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cygwin.com; s=default; t=1739113333; bh=postMy6eoFmKW9qH79MVDQeozys5c2jb4t7qETBC8Lw=; h=Subject:To:Date:List-Id:List-Unsubscribe:List-Archive:List-Post: List-Help:List-Subscribe:From:Reply-To:Cc:From; b=MK/nJVcmbYfT4m1gtr+3QdHvXv6ghHcpH5k0zv5o7p3bVRkB0CPAUbcS4xKHaXIM0 pyCteH7ljOKaWF0DS1tvDzc21Y1Sh1Xu4cS23fvXEW0Iba9Q4bIubaVf9ZWgN590sC a/RHs/+4eML2Xnam5iDAml/7hOTocswDUqgun4Ac= X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 723353858D26 ARC-Filter: OpenARC Filter v1.0.0 sourceware.org 723353858D26 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1739113275; cv=none; b=Tkxt1vcUQGVfEnrbFq6V46p9qSdwiSEanqe4aas5l4eQHYMUVr4LbNfsLLwS0raIXBlTvlbxFfGBJsvQQgYNz2SMWtTMK0rkzPJ+zF2/WFj79wJQFG/CqT3Gyg25M98rgORXUzGKkAWF/ED1Z4tyDkiASc8OpiT7cWJUi27gBhY= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1739113275; c=relaxed/simple; bh=mPmwKQs5y8vjkT+Ae9tBiQrxwM0lCaF132CyY0xRJyg=; h=From:Subject:To:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version; b=K506tYOGv+aZp3D4U9uIf8aRke686aMKPTQFOemNPvcqAlVhOfT6+mQL208cATKEMCrF/I1BoMZeTVH7Wee0JsFwTE//4/Iyv/isJhzqPCEubNO8ulJMzB265EaHv8wAQ7t+YWBc+4T+UxyMZrldeoMRllTgsJH1BoDtQpjgC9A= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; server2.sourceware.org DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 723353858D26 Subject: coreutils-9.0-1: chmod -R silently returns failure if dir contains a symlink (regression) To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 16:01:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-TOI-EXPURGATEID: 150726::1739113269-30FF6861-E0078152/0/0 CLEAN NORMAL X-TOI-MSGID: 909459bb-7094-45c2-975d-33fd79b94f00 X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Christian Franke via Cygwin Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: Christian Franke Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "Cygwin" 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. -- Regards, Christian -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple