On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Erik Rossen wrote:
But it would be so much more elegant if chmod just Did The Right Thing.
It's certainly arguable whether adding another non-standard flag is the Right Thing when it's fairly trivial to get the result in a more portable fashion using find(1).
Can I ask you to pass along this wishlist item to upstream and maybe ask them why ctime must be modified even when the permissions are not? I would really like to know why.
Upstream monitors the debian bug logs and will presumably chime in if interested. I vaguely recall that people want these utilities to act even if not strictly necessary because of possible side effects for extended attributes.
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