Package: coreutils Version: 8.20-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Under some circumstances, combining the --recursive and --changes arguments to chmod can cause it to report errors checking the new permissions of subdirectories. Test case:
$ cd /tmp $ mkdir -p a/b $ chmod -R g+s a $ chmod -Rc o-rwx a mode of `a' changed from 2755 (rwxr-sr-x) to 2750 (rwxr-s---) chmod: getting new attributes of `b': No such file or directory The problem lies in src/chmod.c, function mode_changed, line ~123, the call to stat. The file path passed is just the filename, not the recursive path, and so the stat call fails. A more subtle error happens if the filename is valid in the current directory from which chmod is invoked, since it will then be comparing the mode bits of two unrelated items. All other calls to stat and chmod related functions use the *at variants that take a directory fd for path resolution. This call needs to be updated to do the same. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.8.5 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.10 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10 ii libacl1 2.2.51-8 ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
