Re: unable to copy directory recursively to a vfat partition

[Chong Yidong]

Sven Joachim <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2008-07-24 07:30 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> I do have access to vfat, but I cannot reproduce the bug.  IIRC there
>> was some change in Linux 2.6.25 that caused the chmod call to report
>> failure (it never works on vfat anyway, but that used to be silently
>> ignored).  This change seems to have been reverted in the meantime,
>> though; I'm running 2.6.26 here.
>
> The change in 2.6.25 also broke rsync, as can be seen on
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449080.  I'll have a look at
> the problem when I get around to reboot with a 2.6.25 kernel.

Does anyone know what the BSDs do?  In other words, is reporting failure
for chmod simply "undefined behavior" that is up to the discretion of
the kernel (i.e., we need to be able to handle it), or is it simply a
Linux bug (i.e., we can probably get away with doing nothing)?