Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> We could get fancier and use fchmod for readable directories and for
> readable or writeable regular files, falling back on lchmod for
> everything else; but this still suffers from the same race conditions
> that lchmod suffers from, and I'm not sure it's worth the hassle.
>
> 2006-01-01  Paul Eggert  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>       * NEWS: Document that mkfifo and mknod -m no longer set special bits.
>       * doc/coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Clarify file mode bits versus
>       file permission bits.

That looks fine.
Thanks for all the work.


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