[bug #25848] chmod fails to clear sgid bit on absolute changes

[Detlev Zundel]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25848>

                 Summary: chmod fails to clear sgid bit on absolute changes
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: dzu
            Submitted on: Fri Mar 13 14:30:34 2009
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I first discovered this in 6.10 but also see it in 7.1:

address@hidden:tmp[0]$ $p/chmod --version ; mkdir foo ; $p/chmod 3777 foo ; ls
-ld foo ; $p/chmod 0 foo ; ls -ld foo
chmod (GNU coreutils) 7.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
drwxrwsrwt 2 dzu dzu 4096 2009-03-13 15:28 foo
d-----S--- 2 dzu dzu 4096 2009-03-13 15:28 foo





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