bug#12494: 0 exit status even when chmod fails

[Jim Meyering]

Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2012-09-24 21:25 +0200, Alan Curry wrote:
>
>> If the mount man page disagrees with the kernel, it's still a bug in the man
>> page at least.
>
> Possibly, but the mount manpage is not part of coreutils.
>
>> (Also, the rest of the world needs to work around extra stupidity because of
>> rsync?)
>
> No, all stupidity here belongs to the FAT filesystems.  And the kernel
> devs thankfully have a strict policy of not breaking userspace, so it's
> unlikely that the behavior of chmod(2) will ever be changed; in any case
> there's nothing coreutils can do.

Thanks for explaining.  I've closed this bug.