[bug #19649] chown major behaviour change

2007-04-20 Thread anonymous 

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 Summary: chown major behaviour change
 Project: GNU Core Utilities
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Friday 04/20/2007 at 22:35 UTC
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
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  Status: None
 Privacy: Public
 Assigned to: None
 Open/Closed: Open
 Discussion Lock: Any

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In atleast 5.97 chown now works on the target of a symlink rather than a
symlink.  This has NEVER been the case with any version of chown.  This leads
to unexpected results on GNU systems as even on GNU systems chown hasn't
functioned like this.  Bug was discovered in Debian coreutils 5.97-5.3,
marked and reported as such by myself.




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[bug #19649] chown major behaviour change

2007-04-20 Thread Paul Eggert 

Update of bug #19649 (project coreutils):

  Status:None => Wont Fix   

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Follow-up Comment #1:

This behavior change was in coreutils 5.3 (dated 2005-01-08) and was for
compatibility with BSD and POSIX. To get the behavior you prefer, use chown
-h. On BSD systems, chown has followed symlinks for quite some time.

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[bug #19649] chown major behaviour change

2007-04-20 Thread Paul Eggert 

Update of bug #19649 (project coreutils):

 Open/Closed:Open => Closed 


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