[Slackbuilds-users] Call for Bug Fixes, Patches, etc

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 23/02/16 12:51, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
> On 05/02/16 13:48, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>> 2. The following horrible, broken and obsolete eyesore:
>>
>> find -L . \
>>   \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
>>    -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
>>   \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
>>    -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
>>
>> can be replaced by:
>>
>>     chmod -R a-st,u+rwX,go-w+rX .
>
> I advocate this solution.
> Can we switch for it?
> Or at least would the SlackBuild be accepted if I used this construct?
>

For the moment I was worried about what is going to happen with symbolic 
links, man page to the rescue:

"chmod never changes the permissions of symbolic links; the chmod system 
call cannot change their permissions. This is not a problem since the 
permissions of symbolic links are never used. However, for each symbolic 
link listed on the command line, chmod changes the permissions of the 
pointed-to file. *In contrast, chmod ignores symbolic links encountered 
during recursive directory traversals.*"

Tested, works as expected.

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski