bug in chown

[Adam Hayes]

Hi,

I (accidentally) created a file in the working directory named
"--exclude".  When I ran
chown [username] *
in that directory, it gave an error:
chown: unrecognized option `--exclude'

It seems to me that chown should not think that something in the directory
is a command option.

I'm using the following chown on an EM64T machine.

chown (GNU coreutils) 5.97
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms
of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

Thanks,
Adam Hayes

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Adam Hayes

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