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bug#41554: chmod allows removing x bit on chmod without a force flag, wh
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#41554: chmod allows removing x bit on chmod without a force flag, which can be inconvenient to recover from |
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Wed, 27 May 2020 10:13:12 +0200 |
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On Mai 26 2020, Will Rosecrans wrote:
> "chmod a-x $(which chmod)" not a particularly likely thing for a user to
> try to do directly, but it is conceivable for some sort of script to
> attempt it by accident because of a bug, and it would make the system
> inconvenient to recover.
It will likely fail with EPERM.
Andreas.
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