chmod o=u bug (omits write bit)

Corey Satten <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID <Pine.NXT.4.33.0208051633200.16586-100000@samburu.cac.washington.edu>
Description of Problem:

    /bin/chmod o=u is broken (omits write bit) see below:

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

    fileutils-4.1-10

How Reproducible:

    always

Steps to Reproduce:

    $ umask 0
    $ umask
    0000
    $ touch foo
    $ /bin/chmod 700 foo
    $ ls -l foo
    -rwx------    1 corey    wheel           0 Aug  5 14:24 foo
    $ /bin/chmod o=u foo

Actual Results:

    $ ls -l foo
    -rwx---r-x    1 corey    wheel           0 Aug  5 14:24 foo

Expected Results:

    $ ls -l foo
    -rwx---rwx    1 corey    wheel           0 Aug  5 14:24 foo

Thanks in advance,
Corey
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