On 23/11/16 07:41, Jakub Martisko wrote: > Hello, according to the man page: "In contrast, chmod > ignores symbolic links encountered during recursive > directory traversals". Is there any reason for this? I've > done a bit of mailing list archaeology and found this [1] > thread with patch. I might try to rewrite the patch for > current version and add some tests if there is no reason > that would discourage from having this functionality. > > JM > > > [1] > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-12/msg00089.html
I've not dug into the consequences of this, but on the face of it the patch looks useful. thanks, Pádraig
