From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] chmod.2, lchmod.3: Document lchmod()
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:41:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210110074159.GA20991@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39277473.ZaUlkdM7pu@omega>
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 05:37:13AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lchmod (= the effect of fchmod with flag AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)
> is implemented since glibc 2.32, see
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14578
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=752dd17443e55a4535cb9e6baa4e550ede383540
>
> Here is a patch to update the man pages accordingly.
Please note the important limitation of that implementation:
it doesn't work when /proc is not mounted, see
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26401
--
ldv
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-10 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-10 4:37 [patch] chmod.2, lchmod.3: Document lchmod() Bruno Haible
2021-01-10 7:41 ` Dmitry V. Levin [this message]
2021-01-10 10:05 ` Bruno Haible
2021-01-10 17:50 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-01-11 8:02 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-18 16:00 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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