bug#11009: Changing File permission of files owned by root

[Nikhil Vidhani]

Hi,

I found a bug (or say lack of functionality) in chmod. I tried to change
the permission of a file (normal .txt file) owned by root using:

sudo chmod -x file.txt

It returned silent prompt but the file permissions were unchanged. I tried
the same with logging in as root and again hit:

chmod -x file.txt

Again the shell returned silent prompt, but the permissions were unchanged.

I think there is some issues within the kernel. If you know anything
relevant please reply.

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Regards
Nikhil Vidhani
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India