-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Linda Walsh on 2/18/2008 11:34 AM:
Please don't top-post - on this list, we prefer to see replies in context. | What does it do? You said it reset somebody's boss's access so he could | not read some file. Was this hyperbole? When I just tried it on a | local directory, "chown -R ." gave an error, while "chown -R : ." | appeared to do nothing on linux, under cygwin, it did reset 'group' id's | from "null" (uid=-1) to my default group, but didn't affect other groups. | But I haven't found a linux case where it does something, yet... :-) Hmm. The info documentation states: OWNER`:' ~ If a colon but no group name follows OWNER, that user is made the ~ owner of the files and the group of the files is changed to ~ OWNER's login group. `:' ~ If only a colon is given, or if NEW-OWNER is empty, neither the ~ owner nor the group is changed. But you claim that using just `:' (or it's obsolete synonym `.') resulted in changing the group to the default login group, rather than being a no-op. I'm wondering whether this is a cygwin porting bug or an upstream documentation bug. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHueYi84KuGfSFAYARAiilAJ4indLMVFhkTp5vt2AxMST7Og4bSQCgo2vk Tsq0+JOBQh25LceJbNAmC2Y= =b+hw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
