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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#65599: mv and cp give a pointless warning when moving/copying a directory |
Date: | Fri, 1 Sep 2023 10:47:40 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 |
On 2023-09-01 08:09, Bruno Haible wrote:
It applies to all 4 variants, as can be seen from applying it to a directory: $ ./a.out /media/nas/bruno/dir1 lchown: Permission denied fchownat: Permission denied chown: Permission denied fchown: Permission denied
Thanks, for coreutils it'd be helpful to now whether there's a similar problem with chmod-related syscalls. If you compile and run the attached program on a file that you don't own (e.g., './a.out /'), does it incorrectly issue "Permission denied" instead of "Operation not permitted" diagnostics?
fchmodat-test.c
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