Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:39:27 -0800 (PST) From: Peter deFriesse <pdefriesse@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/61275: chmod man page/options conflict Message-ID: <200401122239.i0CMdRxs002124@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200401122240.i0CMe9UX060388@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 12 14:40:09 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>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:
>Unformatted:
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