Re: chmod/chown/chgrp behavior change

[Paul FM]

Correction - I meant CTIME (or Inode time).
listed with ls -lc

Thanks

On 4/16/15 5:01 PM, Paul FM wrote:
> Many years ago I checked and chmod only changed the MTIME of a file if
> it needed to make a change to the permissions, now the mtime is changed
> on every file (even if no change is needed).
>
> The  -c option works as expected (only tells you if a change was needed
> to meet your command.
>
> So is this a bug, or was it changed for a spcific reason ?
>
> Is there a command line option to stop it from doing this?
> Has this already been fixed (and I just need to update - version info
> below).
>
> The chmod distributed with FreeBSD still works as I would expect.
>
>
> Note - we found this behaviour changed when trying to figure out why our
> incremental backups are so large (it may have been changed for many years).
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> chmod --version
> chmod (GNU coreutils) 8.21
> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

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