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Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the va
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set |
Date: |
Sat, 15 May 2004 21:09:50 +0200 |
Michal Politowski <address@hidden> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 5.0.91-2
> Severity: normal
>
> chown user symlink
> will change the owner of the symbolic link itself, not the file it is
> pointing to.
> Using the option --dereference is necessary to change the owner of the file.
> Setting POSIXLY_CORRECT doesn't change this, and POSIX mandates changing
> owner of the file not the link unless -h option is specified.
Thanks for reporting that.
POSIX does seem to require that chown's --dereference behavior
be the default. I'll probably change it for the next upstream
coreutils release.
The same applies to chgrp.
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Jim Meyering, 2004/05/17
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Paul Eggert, 2004/05/18
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Jim Meyering, 2004/05/20
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Paul Eggert, 2004/05/21
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Paul Eggert, 2004/05/21
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Jim Meyering, 2004/05/23
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Paul Eggert, 2004/05/23
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Jim Meyering, 2004/05/28