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From: Konstantin Boldyshev <konst@linuxassembly.org>
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:04:32 +0400 (MSD)
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To: Joshua Hudson <joshudson@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Joshua Hudson wrote:

> When hunting down the last errors remaining in tar, I came across
> a particularly weird one in both tar and chmod.
>
> Try chmod 4755 true. True will have mode 755.
> This happens in linux 2.0.63, 2.2.22, 2.4.18-3
> Is anybody else getting this? Anybody have a solution?

It is chmod bug, it did 'mul bl' instead of mul bx.
CVS version has this bug fixed.

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Konstantin