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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/chmod.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions
@@ -2,12 +2,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] -** Bug fixes - - When recursing, chmod -R no longer gets confused into following a symlink - if some other process simultaneously replaces a non-symlink with a symlink. - The fix is effective on modern hosts with the fchmodat or lchmod syscalls. - [bug introduced in the beginning] * Noteworthy changes in release 8.16 (2012-03-26) [stable] diff --git a/src/chmod.c b/src/chmod.c index 2e1f1c70b..aa4ac771c 100644 --- a/src/chmod.c +++ b/src/chmod.c @@ -268,15 +268,7 @@ process_file (FTS *fts, FTSENT *ent) if (! S_ISLNK (old_mode)) { - /* Use any native support for AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, to avoid - following a symlink if there is a race. */ - #if HAVE_FCHMODAT || HAVE_LCHMOD - int follow_flag = AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW; - #else - int follow_flag = 0; - #endif - - if (fchmodat (fts->fts_cwd_fd, file, new_mode, follow_flag) == 0) + if (chmodat (fts->fts_cwd_fd, file, new_mode) == 0) chmod_succeeded = true; else { |