On 2012-09-24 21:25 +0200, Alan Curry wrote:
> If the mount man page disagrees with the kernel, it's still a bug in the man
> page at least.
Possibly, but the mount manpage is not part of coreutils.
> (Also, the rest of the world needs to work around extra stupidity because of
> rsync?)
No, all stupidity here belongs to the FAT filesystems. And the kernel
devs thankfully have a strict policy of not breaking userspace, so it's
unlikely that the behavior of chmod(2) will ever be changed; in any case
there's nothing coreutils can do.
Regards,
Sven
