From 15dd2058fda8d9996af47785afd225cce08449e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 13:28:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Change do_chmod to always try lchmod() first (when possible).

---
 syscall.c | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/syscall.c b/syscall.c
index 181be11d..bf0de8ba 100644
--- a/syscall.c
+++ b/syscall.c
@@ -231,19 +231,13 @@ int do_open(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode)
 #ifdef HAVE_CHMOD
 int do_chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode)
 {
-	static int switch_step = 0;
 	int code;
 	if (dry_run) return 0;
 	RETURN_ERROR_IF_RO_OR_LO;
-	switch (switch_step) {
 #ifdef HAVE_LCHMOD
-#include "case_N.h"
-		if ((code = lchmod(path, mode & CHMOD_BITS)) == 0 || errno != ENOTSUP)
-			break;
-		switch_step++;
+	if ((code = lchmod(path, mode & CHMOD_BITS)) < 0 && errno == ENOTSUP)
 #endif
-
-#include "case_N.h"
+	{
 		if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
 # if defined HAVE_SETATTRLIST
 			struct attrlist attrList;
@@ -258,7 +252,6 @@ int do_chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode)
 # endif
 		} else
 			code = chmod(path, mode & CHMOD_BITS); /* DISCOURAGED FUNCTION */
-		break;
 	}
 	if (code != 0 && (preserve_perms || preserve_executability))
 		return code;
-- 
2.47.2