Hi, I just managed to reproduce this on Linux (with coreutils 8.32) as well - not with a symlink, but with a regular file:
> mkdir test > touch test/file > chmod 777 test/file > chmod -R -w test chmod: test/file: new permissions are r-xrwxrwx, not r-xr-xr-x So maybe it's just there to warn users that who might not expect this result being affected by the umaks? The 'diagnose_surprises' variable suggests that it might be it. Sorry for the noise if that is the case. Best regards, Jakub (and sorry for that Confidential label in the first email - that of course shouldn’t be there).
