http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36755
Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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--- Comment #6 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-11-09
22:00:33 UTC ---
Another reason for using chmod() directly is that some systems cannot fork but
still offer the function call.
I think the reason that one does the call instead of calling the library
function is that one either needs to restrict the call or that one needs a
fancy parser to support numeric values such as 0777 but also characters such as
a+x for which the full pattern is [ugoa][+-=][rwxXst].
