[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Shawn Walker]

Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote:
>> solarg wrote:
>>> hello all,
>>> i'm surprised that gnu chmod is installed, what are the advantages 
>>> comparing to solaris chmod?
>>> It's very annoying when using ACLs.
>> Familiarity; put /usr/bin first in your path if you'd prefer to use 
>> /usr/bin/chmod instead of /usr/gnu/bin/chmod.
> 
> You mean "I want a chmod that works".  It's not quite the same thing.

For single-machine users (which I suspect many will be) I'm not aware of 
anything that "doesn't work" in GNU chmod.  In short, I don't use ACL or 
anything that's broken in GNU chmod, so I don't really care which tool 
I'm using.

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Shawn Walker