Bug 310: be consistent about stat/lstat and chown/lchown to avoid accidentally

modifying permissions or ownership when twiddling symlinks.

diff --git a/coreutils/chmod.c b/coreutils/chmod.c
index 0cb8886..3014d37 100644 (file)
--- a/coreutils/chmod.c
+++ b/coreutils/chmod.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ int chmod_main(int argc, char **argv)
 
        /* Ok, ready to do the deed now */
        do {
-               if (! recursive_action (*argv, recursiveFlag, FALSE, FALSE,
+               if (! recursive_action (*argv, recursiveFlag, TRUE, FALSE,
                                                                fileAction,     fileAction, smode)) {
                        retval = EXIT_FAILURE;
                }