Re: coreutils-9.4.170-7b206 chmod/symlinks test failure

[Pádraig Brady]

On 24/03/2024 16:55, Bruno Haible wrote:
> The chmod/symlinks test fails on:
>    - Alpine Linux 3.18,

That was not Alpine specific, rather due to setgid dirs:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/f77a6352f

>    - macOS 12.5,
>    - FreeBSD 14.0,
>    - NetBSD 9.3 and 10.0-rc4,
>    - OpenBSD 7.4,
>    - Solaris 11.4,
>    - AIX 7.1 and 7.3.1.

These systems can chmod symlinks, and so should be fixed with:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/4cb2742d7
I tested the above on macOS.

thanks!
Pádraig