On 16/04/15 23:01, Paul FM wrote: > Many years ago I checked and chmod only changed the MTIME of a file if > it needed to make a change to the permissions, now the mtime is changed > on every file (even if no change is needed). > > The -c option works as expected (only tells you if a change was needed > to meet your command. > > So is this a bug, or was it changed for a spcific reason ? > > Is there a command line option to stop it from doing this? > Has this already been fixed (and I just need to update - version info > below). > > The chmod distributed with FreeBSD still works as I would expect. > > > Note - we found this behaviour changed when trying to figure out why our > incremental backups are so large (it may have been changed for many years). > > Thanks.
Please see http://bugs.gnu.org/15835 for why we've decided this needs to be implemented in the kernel. thanks, Pádraig.
