[PATCH 0/5] Linux: lchmod and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW support for fchmodat

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Aug 25 11:16:45 GMT 2020


* Andreas Schwab:

> You cannot compare lchmod with lchown.  The latter has a useful, working
> implementation, whereas the former *always* fails, so implementing it
> doesn't make any sense.

Why would lchmod of a regular file fail?  lchown doesn't.

Thanks,
Florian



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