Re: Cope with weird AIX chmod behavior

[Albert Chin]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 04:21:08PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> This, on an AIX 5.1 below some /tmp-like directory:
> 
> $ ls -ld .. .
> drwx--S---  15 username sys            1024 Aug 21 09:01 ..
> drwx--S---   2 username sys             512 Aug 21 09:07 .
> $ chmod u+w .
> 0481-014 chmod: not all requested changes were made to .
> $ chmod u-w .
> $ ls -la
> dr-x------   2 username sys             512 Aug 21 09:07 .

Works fine on our AIX 5.1 system with v5.1.0.35 of bos.rte.commands
(package containing /usr/bin/chmod).

> leads to this in configure output:
> | checking if xlf supports -c -o file.o... chmod: not all requested changes 
> were made to .
> | yes
> 
> OK to apply this cleanup (all branches)?  Does it hurt when we just kill
> the g+s (then we would be in more trouble, as there are other places
> which do this, too)?

Should be ok. Considering our chmod works, it means IBM fixed a bug in
it. So, if it's decided that g+s is bad, we could ask the user to
upgrade.

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albert chin (address@hidden)