-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 10/17/2009 2:53 PM: > Besides, it is consistent with many other tools that use -h to mean > operation on symlinks proper (even though POSIX 2008 forgot to add 'touch > -h'), including these from POSIX: chown, chgrp, file > > [I still have 'chown -h' on my todo list...]
I meant 'chmod -h', since we already have 'chown -h'. It won't work on Linux, where fchmodat(,AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) fails as permitted by POSIX, but will work on BSD and match their implementation: http://www.ipnom.com/FreeBSD-Man-Pages/chmod.1.html - - Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkraMEsACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCCGACbB2H+dpaMu8W0e+0hhvunueeS rZ8AoMZmo0qolzV8bHwP2L+E9pyXgRpz =65Vz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
