6 files changed, 39 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/library/std/src/fs.rs b/library/std/src/fs.rs
index d4a584f4d14..1ed4f2f9f0c 100644
--- a/library/std/src/fs.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/fs.rs
@@ -3156,6 +3156,25 @@ pub fn set_permissions<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P, perm: Permissions) -> io::Result
     fs_imp::set_permissions(path.as_ref(), perm.0)
 }
 
+/// Set the permissions of a file, unless it is a symlink.
+///
+/// Note that the non-final path elements are allowed to be symlinks.
+///
+/// # Platform-specific behavior
+///
+/// Currently unimplemented on Windows.
+///
+/// On Unix platforms, this results in a [`FilesystemLoop`] error if the last element is a symlink.
+///
+/// This behavior may change in the future.
+///
+/// [`FilesystemLoop`]: crate::io::ErrorKind::FilesystemLoop
+#[doc(alias = "chmod", alias = "SetFileAttributes")]
+#[unstable(feature = "set_permissions_nofollow", issue = "141607")]
+pub fn set_permissions_nofollow<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P, perm: Permissions) -> io::Result<()> {
+    fs_imp::set_permissions_nofollow(path.as_ref(), perm)
+}
+
 impl DirBuilder {
     /// Creates a new set of options with default mode/security settings for all
     /// platforms and also non-recursive.
diff --git a/library/std/src/sync/nonpoison/mutex.rs b/library/std/src/sync/nonpoison/mutex.rs
index b6861c78f00..fd1e671d7a3 100644
--- a/library/std/src/sync/nonpoison/mutex.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/sync/nonpoison/mutex.rs
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ pub struct MutexGuard<'a, T: ?Sized + 'a> {
     lock: &'a Mutex<T>,
 }
 
-/// A [`MutexGuard`] is not `Send` to maximize platform portablity.
+/// A [`MutexGuard`] is not `Send` to maximize platform portability.
 ///
 /// On platforms that use POSIX threads (commonly referred to as pthreads) there is a requirement to
 /// release mutex locks on the same thread they were acquired.
diff --git a/library/std/src/sync/poison/mutex.rs b/library/std/src/sync/poison/mutex.rs
index 6205c4fa4ca..720c212c65c 100644
--- a/library/std/src/sync/poison/mutex.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/sync/poison/mutex.rs
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ pub struct MutexGuard<'a, T: ?Sized + 'a> {
     poison: poison::Guard,
 }
 
-/// A [`MutexGuard`] is not `Send` to maximize platform portablity.
+/// A [`MutexGuard`] is not `Send` to maximize platform portability.
 ///
 /// On platforms that use POSIX threads (commonly referred to as pthreads) there is a requirement to
 /// release mutex locks on the same thread they were acquired.
diff --git a/library/std/src/sys/fs/mod.rs b/library/std/src/sys/fs/mod.rs
index d9740e15789..dbd782f5018 100644
--- a/library/std/src/sys/fs/mod.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/sys/fs/mod.rs
@@ -114,6 +114,21 @@ pub fn set_permissions(path: &Path, perm: FilePermissions) -> io::Result<()> {
     with_native_path(path, &|path| imp::set_perm(path, perm.clone()))
 }
 
+#[cfg(unix)]
+pub fn set_permissions_nofollow(path: &Path, perm: crate::fs::Permissions) -> io::Result<()> {
+    use crate::fs::OpenOptions;
+    use crate::os::unix::fs::OpenOptionsExt;
+
+    OpenOptions::new().custom_flags(libc::O_NOFOLLOW).open(path)?.set_permissions(perm)
+}
+
+#[cfg(not(unix))]
+pub fn set_permissions_nofollow(_path: &Path, _perm: crate::fs::Permissions) -> io::Result<()> {
+    crate::unimplemented!(
+        "`set_permissions_nofollow` is currently only implemented on Unix platforms"
+    )
+}
+
 pub fn canonicalize(path: &Path) -> io::Result<PathBuf> {
     with_native_path(path, &imp::canonicalize)
 }
diff --git a/library/std/src/sys/mod.rs b/library/std/src/sys/mod.rs
index 8ec0a0e3302..6324c1a232a 100644
--- a/library/std/src/sys/mod.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/sys/mod.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #![allow(unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn)]
 
 /// The configure builtins provides runtime support compiler-builtin features
-/// which require dynamic intialization to work as expected, e.g. aarch64
+/// which require dynamic initialization to work as expected, e.g. aarch64
 /// outline-atomics.
 mod configure_builtins;
 
diff --git a/library/std/src/sys/pal/uefi/time.rs b/library/std/src/sys/pal/uefi/time.rs
index b7c71b76ee8..36ce3f7ef96 100644
--- a/library/std/src/sys/pal/uefi/time.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/sys/pal/uefi/time.rs
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ pub(crate) mod system_time_internal {
         Duration::new(epoch, t.nanosecond)
     }
 
-    /// This algorithm is a modifed version of the one described in the post:
+    /// This algorithm is a modified version of the one described in the post:
     /// https://howardhinnant.github.io/date_algorithms.html#clive_from_days
     ///
     /// The changes are to use 1900-01-01-00:00:00 with timezone -1440 as anchor instead of UNIX
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ pub(crate) mod system_time_internal {
         // Check timzone validity
         assert!(timezone <= 1440 && timezone >= -1440);
 
-        // FIXME(#126043): use checked_sub_signed once stablized
+        // FIXME(#126043): use checked_sub_signed once stabilized
         let secs =
             dur.as_secs().checked_add_signed((-timezone as i64) * SECS_IN_MINUTE as i64).unwrap();