On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 04:21:08PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > This, on an AIX 5.1 below some /tmp-like directory: > > $ ls -ld .. . > drwx--S--- 15 username sys 1024 Aug 21 09:01 .. > drwx--S--- 2 username sys 512 Aug 21 09:07 . > $ chmod u+w . > 0481-014 chmod: not all requested changes were made to . > $ chmod u-w . > $ ls -la > dr-x------ 2 username sys 512 Aug 21 09:07 .
Works fine on our AIX 5.1 system with v5.1.0.35 of bos.rte.commands (package containing /usr/bin/chmod). > leads to this in configure output: > | checking if xlf supports -c -o file.o... chmod: not all requested changes > were made to . > | yes > > OK to apply this cleanup (all branches)? Does it hurt when we just kill > the g+s (then we would be in more trouble, as there are other places > which do this, too)? Should be ok. Considering our chmod works, it means IBM fixed a bug in it. So, if it's decided that g+s is bad, we could ask the user to upgrade. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
