-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Proulx on 12/2/2009 7:25 PM: > I would prefer not to remove this very useful feature. Of course I > find it useful because I use it quite often. But I understand that if > it isn't standard then we should remove it from the tool.
POSIX doesn't specify it (it only specifies 'chown user' and 'chown user:group', not 'chown user:'). Therefore, a POSIX-conformant app will never call chown with that syntax in the first place, and we can make it behave however we'd like. Since our current behavior is a pure extension, and has had several people claim it is useful, and since changing it now after years of providing it can be viewed as a regression, I see no reason to remove it from coreutils. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksXLggACgkQ84KuGfSFAYC7rACdFICuhik/T5WAilmC8IHtH7nc gZwAoJ7DZWHigQpbapnKSRUCxf4H4CxC =eBXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
