http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845245 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845245#c4 Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |WONTFIX --- Comment #4 from Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> --- As per discussions like [1] and [2], it is problematic to skip the chmod(3) syscall because e.g. the ACLs on an NFS file system may change even if the UNIX file permission bits do not. Thus said, the only instance knowing if the ctime has to be changed is the kernel. Trying to workaround that in chmod(1) seems to be quirky. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-01/msg00303.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-10/msg00030.html -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.