There is an error in chmod(1)

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at gmail.com
Sun Jul 14 21:58:59 UTC 2013


On 15 July 2013 00:19, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no> wrote:
> There is an error in the chmod(1) man page.
> tingo at kg-v2$ uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-v2.kg4.no 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #6: Fri Apr 27 23:50:55 CEST 2012
>     root at kg-v2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> tingo at kg-v2$ apropos ^sticky
> sticky(7)                - sticky text and append-only directories
> tingo at kg-v2$ man 1 chmod | grep sticky
>            1000    (the sticky bit).  See chmod(2) and sticky(8).
>            t       The sticky bit.
>      setmode(3), symlink(7), chown(8), mount(8), sticky(8)
>

This was fixed in head (and appeared in 9.x) but never merged to 8.
I just merged the related change to 8-STABLE (the stable/8 branch).
Thanks for reporting!

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