On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:54:54PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There is another problem with fakeroot, and that is chmod. It doesn't work > > at all :) I always get EOPNOTSUPP. Your comment: > > > > Unlike the normal Unix > > and Hurd meaning of chmod, this function is also used to attempt to > > change files into other types. If such a transition is attempted which > > is impossible, then return EOPNOTSUPP. */ > > Um, I don't think this is supposed to happen! > > file_chmod is *not* supposed to affect the IFMT bits; where is this > comment found?
Well, we are not really talking about file_chmod, but about netfs_attempt_chmod. However, I have not found it to be used by anything but netfs_S_file_chmod. The original comment is in libnetfs/netfs.h Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
