On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 00:25 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > In ar and ranlib we don't mind if the fchown call fails (it normally > would, then the file simply gets own by the current user). We used to > call fchown before fchmod, but that might ignore (or reset) some mode > flags, so call fchown first, then try fchmod (like we already do in > elfcompress). Also explicitly test and then ignore any errors for > chown. We used to do some asm trick, but that confuses some static > analyzers (and it is somewhat unreadable). Also split out the giant > if statements to make them a little bit more understandable.
Pushed to master.
