chmod bug report

[Mike Chao]

hello,

not sure if it a actual bug or not, but chmod reports incorrectly when
it tries to modify file permissions on file systems it cannot handle,
e.g. vfat. The --verbose switch reports that the switch is successful,
but a quick ls -l of the file in question shows that the permissions are
not changed (for vfat, the file system driver default mounts everything
as owner/group root, permissions 755).

this is in contrast to chown, which verbosely reports that the operation
is not permitted (i.e., attempting to chown a file on a vfat partition),
even as root.


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Mike Chao
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