#438889 chmod could honour g+S to affect only directories

Package:
coreutils
Source:
coreutils
Description:
GNU core utilities
Submitter:
martin f krafft
Date:
2011-07-11 12:51:57 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#438889#3
Date:
2007-08-20 15:21:11 UTC
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The subject basically already says it all. In the spirit of chmod
-R g+X, it could also handle g+S and set the setgid bit only for
directories (which seems to be 99% of the use cases of setting
setgid recursivly).

Thanks,