From: Maurice S Barnum (msb@cats.ucsc.edu)
Date: 06/01/93


From: msb@cats.ucsc.edu (Maurice S Barnum)
Subject: Re: GNU fileutils: chmod +x doesn't work
Date: 1 Jun 1993 06:15:27 GMT


In <1993May29.160626.3874@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam) writes:

>I've just compiled GNU fileutils 3.6 and notice that chmod +x doesn't
>work. I've saw an article in gnu.utils.bug that this is a problem with
>the libc of Linux. Is it so? How to correct this?

I compiled fileutils 3.6 recently also. I just checked "chmod +x"
and it works just fine. I'm using 4.4 libs, available from your
local linux ftp archive.
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