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

[Fredrich Maney]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> 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.

I think you meant "single user machines", not "single machine users".
Those are two very different scenarios. I can see not using ACLs in
single user machines, of which I suspect there are far fewer than you
think, but in a multi-user single machine, I certainly see ACLs being
used quite extensively.

Also, one thing to mention, GNU chmod and ls won't have any problems
with UFS ACLs, only ZFS ACLs.

fpsm