Re: possible bug?

[Duane Cox]

Thanks guys, I wasn't for sure if that was correct operation.
I understand now that it is.

Duane Cox


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Schwinge"
<address@hidden>
To: "Duane Cox" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: possible bug?


> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:05:53AM -0500, Duane Cox wrote:
> > Hello, I'm not sure if this is correct operation, or a bug...
> > using: coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
> >
> > I'm in my home dir, changing permissions on hidden files
> > and folders in my home dir.  Apparently chown also grabs ..
> > all the way up to /home and changes that ownership as
> > well as any users in /home
> >
> >
> > address@hidden:/home/dcox# chown -Rv dcox.users .*
> > ...
>
> You told chown to operate on files and directories recursively and '.*'
> also matches '..'.
> 'chown' is behaving correctly.
>
>
> Regards,
>  Thomas
>