* Rich Felker: > coreutils should be opting to use the system-provided lchmod, which is > safe, and correctly handling error returns (silently treating > EOPNOTSUPP as success) rather than as hard errors.
glibc's lchmod always returns ENOSYS (except on Hurd). I don't know how lchmod is used in coreutils, but I suspect it is not particularly useful. Thanks, Florian