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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:39:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter deFriesse <pdefriesse@yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: chmod man page/options conflict
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>Number:         61275
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       chmod man page/options conflict
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 12 14:40:09 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 12 14:44:47 PST 2004
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan 12 14:44:47 PST 2004
>Originator:     Peter deFriesse
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD boojum.oit.umass.edu 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #3: Wed Jan 29 17:52:35 EST 2003     peter@boojum.oit.umass.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOJUM  i386

>Description:
Man page says:

     -h      If the file is a symbolic link, change the mode of the link
             itself rather than the file that the link points to.

boojum(peter) 17:35% which chmod
/bin/chmod

Output of command:

boojum(peter) 17:36% /bin/chmod -h 600 chmodtest.lnk
chmod: illegal option -- h
usage: chmod [-fv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] mode file ...

boojum(peter) 17:36% ls -l chmodtest.lnk 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 peter  staff  14 Jan 12 17:30 chmodtest.lnk -> test.file


>How-To-Repeat:
see above
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ceri 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 12 14:44:13 PST 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
This was corrected in revision 1.16.2.6 of src/bin/chmod/chmod.c. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61275 
>Unformatted:
