bug#81444: chown, chmod, chgrp, chcon, ls: --recursive walk does not ignore ENOENT errors

On 23/07/2026 00:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2026-07-22 15:56, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>> Note ENOTDIR is one of the considerations in
>> nonexistent_file_errno() in src/remove.c.
> 
> That's present in src/remove.c so that 'rm -f a/b' does not complain if
> 'a' is a non-directory; see coreutils commit
> da9541f18e6985593b73c30d121605e8cff62a7b dated 2006-10-03. That
> consideration doesn't apply to recursive chown etc., so I think chown
> etc. shouldn't treat ENOTDIR like ENOENT.
> 
> PS. I am sensitive to this issue because today I'm looking into some
> ENOENT issues in GNU Tar. What a mess that is....

Ok cool, I'll just consider ENOENT for this so.
I won't be at a computer for about 1 day,
but I'll push after that.

thanks for the review,
Padraig