bug#25223: chmod +w does not work

2016-12-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Eugen Dedu wrote: Is there a rationale for this, i.e. chmod to use umask? It's specified by POSIX. I expect the idea was to make it a bit harder to grant permissions that the user didn't intend.

bug#25223: chmod +w does not work

2016-12-18 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 18/12/16 18:34, Pádraig Brady wrote: tag 25223 notabug close 25223 stop On 18/12/16 12:37, Eugen Dedu wrote: Hi, chmod +w file does not work: snoopy:~$ touch ff snoopy:~$ ls -l ff -rw-r--r-- 1 ededu ededu 0 Dec 18 13:31 ff snoopy:~$ chmod +w ff snoopy:~$ ls -l ff -rw-r--r-- 1 ededu ededu

bug#25223: chmod +w does not work

2016-12-18 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 25223 notabug close 25223 stop On 18/12/16 12:37, Eugen Dedu wrote: > Hi, > > chmod +w file does not work: > > snoopy:~$ touch ff > snoopy:~$ ls -l ff > -rw-r--r-- 1 ededu ededu 0 Dec 18 13:31 ff > snoopy:~$ chmod +w ff > snoopy:~$ ls -l ff > -rw-r--r-- 1 ededu ededu 0 Dec 18 13:31 ff >

bug#25223: chmod +w does not work

2016-12-18 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi, chmod +w file does not work: snoopy:~$ touch ff snoopy:~$ ls -l ff -rw-r--r-- 1 ededu ededu 0 Dec 18 13:31 ff snoopy:~$ chmod +w ff snoopy:~$ ls -l ff -rw-r--r-- 1 ededu ededu 0 Dec 18 13:31 ff snoopy:~$ chmod +x ff snoopy:~$ ls -l ff -rwxr-xr-x 1 ededu ededu 0 Dec 18 13:31 ff snoopy:~$