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

[Joerg Schilling]

Jason King <jason at ansipunx.net> wrote:

> It's not complete, and could probably be a bit cleaner.  The long
> options from GNU chmod aren't supported yet, but -c, -v are
> implemented (and a couple quick tests look ok).  Also -H -L, -P from
> BSD has also been implemented (but not tested yet, I'll try to do that
> later this week unless someone wants to take a stab at it).  Current
> deficiencies aside, it is actual code.

-H -L -P are Options defined by POSIX.2-1001

In general, it makes sense to act similar to the POSIX standardization
process. Options from other implementations are first checked and discussed for 
their significance and importance. Under these constraints, a GNU find option
-mmin has no chance as there is a much better way to specify times in a sub-day
maner as found in e.g. sfind and BSD find.

Jörg

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