Re: chmod: unexpected results when uid = gid for a file

At 10:44 PM 9/21/2002 -0400, Matt Swift wrote: > >I have observed the following reproducible strange behavior of chmod. > >My conjecture consistent with tests so far is that problems occur only >when a file's owner is the same as the file's group. > More precisely, uids and gids are mapped to inte

chmod: unexpected results when uid = gid for a file

I have observed the following reproducible strange behavior of chmod. You will notice that several of the commands do something different than they would do on a Unix system (I've marked these commands with "!!!" in the right margin). I think chmod is doing the wrong thing in those cases, but po