For some reason the following chmod command fails.
$ touch a.a
$ chmod -w a.a
chmod: Must indicate a mode and at least one file
This works on all other Unixen I tested. The following has the same effect
and does work.
$ chmod a-w a.a
The configure script of rcs expects the former semantics though, and dies
when it doesn’t work.
Thanks,
Shaun
Shaun Jackman <sjackman@nospam.vortek.com> wrote:
For some reason the following chmod command fails.
Parsing bug in chmod. Internal PR/9427. According to that it was
fixed some time ago and should be available in 6.1.1 and beyond …
This works on all other Unixen I tested. The following has the same effect
and does work.
$ chmod a-w a.a
That is the suggested work-around until you upgrade.
John Garvey <jgarvey@qnx.com> wrote:
Shaun Jackman <> sjackman@nospam.vortek.com> > wrote:
For some reason the following chmod command fails.Parsing bug in chmod. Internal PR/9427. According to that it was
fixed some time ago and should be available in 6.1.1 and beyond …
my tests showed it didn’t work for any versions of 6.1.x
but it does work in 6.2NC.
frank
It’s not so much of a bug as a missing feature. POSIX says that chmod shall
conform to the utility syntax guidelines, which amongst other things
stipulate that you can supply an argument of “–” to stipulate
end-of-options, after which any following arguments will be treated as
operands even if they start with a “-”. So you can work around this and on
any version of Neutrino, and any other POSIX system, by using “chmod – -w
filename”
“Frank Liu” <liug@mama.indstate.edu> wrote in message
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John Garvey <> jgarvey@qnx.com> > wrote:
Shaun Jackman <> sjackman@nospam.vortek.com> > wrote:
For some reason the following chmod command fails.Parsing bug in chmod. Internal PR/9427. According to that it was
fixed some time ago and should be available in 6.1.1 and beyond …my tests showed it didn’t work for any versions of 6.1.x
but it does work in 6.2NC.frank
Frank Liu <liug@mama.indstate.edu> wrote:
John Garvey <> jgarvey@qnx.com> > wrote:
Shaun Jackman <> sjackman@nospam.vortek.com> > wrote:
For some reason the following chmod command fails.
Parsing bug in chmod. Internal PR/9427. According to that it was
fixed some time ago and should be available in 6.1.1 and beyond …
my tests showed it didn’t work for any versions of 6.1.x
but it does work in 6.2NC.
OK, thanks; I don’t have access to either version so was going off
the comments in the bug database (which would appear to be a bit
overly-optimistic); I’ll add your finding to the PR in case this
issue is raised again …