Jim Meyering wrote: > tags 10636 notabug > thanks > > ... >> Thank you for noticing and reporting that bug. >> You guessed it. It is specific to Fedora's version of chown. >> I.e., when I try to reproduce it with the chown from stock >> coreutils-8.15, it works as expected. > > Oh, and since it's not an upstream bug, I'm marking it as such > and closing its ticket.
Finally, this was fixed by upstream commit v8.12-59-g6b282e7:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=6b282e7510ca8d
