Re: [PATCH]: chmod - do inform about using different mode than requested with SGID/SUID/sticky bits without permissions to change them

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ondřej Vašík on 11/20/2008 5:51 AM:
> For me verbose mode is something useful to track problems. Therefore I
> do prefer more informations there. Common usage of
> chown/chmod/chgrp/chcon utilities is without --verbose/--changes mode,
> so it would affect very low (close to zero) amount of users anyway.

Would a double --verbose make sense?  'chown --verbose' merely prints a
generic message that it changed a mode, while 'chown --verbose --verbose'
re-stats the file and prints the updated mode?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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