Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Since the above behavior is not specified by POSIX, and
> is IMHO, counter-intuitive, I propose to change it.  However,
> it is documented both in coreutils and in cpio's manuals.

I'm not particularly bound to this feature, but it was here for such a
long time that removing it now will break a lot of existing scripts and
force many people to change their habits.  I'd rather not do it.

Regards,
Sergey