Re: fileutils-4.1 bugfix in modechange.c

[Jim Meyering]

Clifford Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
> here is a patch fixes this bug in fileutils-4.1:
>
>       dilbert:~$ chmod 770 x
>       dilbert:~$ chmod.broken o=u x
>       dilbert:~$ ls -l x
>       -rwxrwxr-x    1 root     root        25952 Mar 27 15:06 x
>
> the file mode should be '-rwxrwxrwx'. That's because of a typo
> in lib/modechange.c:
>
> --- fileutils-4.1/lib/modechange.c.orig       Wed Mar 27 15:22:14 2002
> +++ fileutils-4.1/lib/modechange.c    Wed Mar 27 15:45:19 2002

Thanks for the report and patch!
That was fixed in the 4.1.2 test release.
The latest is here:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.1.7.tar.gz