If chown and chgrp can grow -d flags to suppress performing the
operation when it will have no effect (other than changing the
inode's ctime value) then chmod and chflags should also have -d
flags for the same purpose. Make it so.

branches: 1.28.6;
Use Ex.

Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.

Document the version chmod first appeared.
Bump date.

In all man pages that say:

The -H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is
specified. In addition, these options override each other and the
command's actions are determined by the last one specified.

Add:

The default is as if the -P option had been specified.

add --reference=rfile

branches: 1.23.6; 1.23.12;
Document "-f". From Andreas Wiese in PR bin/35409, slightly modified.

Remove physical markup.

branches: 1.21.28;
Add xref to chflags(1). From Andre Luiz de Oliveira in PR 32265.

Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22249, verified by myself.

Start new paragraph after options are listed.

Align default behaviour of chmod, chgrp, chown, and chflags with symlink(7),
IEEE 1003.1-2001 (where applicable) and other systems, by follwoing symlinks
on the command line and changing their targets' modes/ownership/flags, rather
than ignoring them.

This fixes PR standards/563 (at last).

Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now.

Sort sections, drop unnecessary .Pps.

The "X" permission _is_ specified by POSIX.2.

For commands and utilities, use EXIT STATUS rather than RETURN VALUES as
appropriate (and documented in mdoc(7)).

Add 'RETURN VALUE' section header.

branches: 1.12.4;
Sync wi/ what mdoc.samples(7) says:
- The default argument of Ar macro is file ...
- Use or Ap ing.

Fix .Nm usage.

Document -h flag, option to manupilate symbolic link.

Use .Xr (from PR#3627)

convert to new RCS id conventions.

Merge with 4.4-Lite.

add some info about u, g, o perm specs

Fix spelling errors.

Add RCS indentifiers.

changed "Id" to "Header" for rcsids

added rcs ids to all files

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision