On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:20:47PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Why is it preferable to run chown and think it did something, as indicated by > the success exit status, rather than be told it was not an appropriate call.
It would require to patch a bunch of applications just because the underlying FS doesn't support chown. That's not exactly the purpose of Cygwin which tries to simplify porting apps, not making it harder. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@;cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/