At any rate, the behavior is POSIX-mandated. POSIX also has the note: "Some implementations of chmod never used the process' umask when changing modes; systems conformant with this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 do so when who is not specified."
Are we okay to close this bug out, then? (I don't feel confident to reject Zimmerman bugs ;) ) -- chmod -x fails, apparently due to umask https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67583 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
