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    merge fchmod() and fchmodat() guts, kill ancient broken kludge · e57712eb
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    The kludge in question is undocumented and doesn't work for 32bit
    binaries on amd64, sparc64 and s390.  Passing (mode_t)-1 as
    mode had (since 0.99.14v and contrary to behaviour of any
    other Unix, prescriptions of POSIX, SuS and our own manpages)
    was kinda-sorta no-op.  Note that any software relying on
    that (and looking for examples shows none) would be visibly
    broken on sparc64, where practically all userland is built
    32bit.  No such complaints noticed...
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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