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Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the va
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set |
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Fri, 28 May 2004 20:06:08 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> For the BSD -H/-L/-P options, which control file tree walking:
>>>
>>> -P = --walk=physical
>>> -H = --walk=hybrid (I have no idea what -H originally stood for.)
>>> -L = --walk=logical
>
> As a minor point I'm now thinking that it might be clearer to make
> these options operands of --recursive instead, e.g.,
> --recursive=physical. This is because -P/-H/-L makes no sense without -R.
Good idea.
>>> * Minor suggestion: "chown : file" should invoke chown with uid and
>>> gid both set to -1, so that the file ownership and group doesn't
>>> change but the setuid/setgid bits are cleared (and perhaps ACLs are
>>> removed). This might be useful.
>>
>> POSIX seems to require owner[:group].
>> Is it compliant to accept `:'?
>
> Yes, as an upward-compatible extension. GNU chown already accepts
> ":group" as an extension, for example.
Ok! Thanks for volunteering.
- Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set, Jim Meyering, 2004/05/15
- 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,
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