On May 20, 2012, at 10:43 , Burton Samograd wrote:
> Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of
> chown on plan9 and what is the plan9 way around changing
> the owners and groups of files? Thanks.
it's simply not part of the model. we tend to use groups for many
things modern unixes
> Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on
> plan9 and what is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups
> of files? Thanks.
You could use the "chgrp -u" command, but it will only
work if you mounted the file system allowing arbitrary
changes with wstat. The Foss
On Sun May 20 10:44:12 EDT 2012, burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote:
> I had hg complaining about the owner of the system wide hgrc on 9front so
> I did what I thought was most obvious and tried a chown of the file. No
> chown.
> So I did a google and found that plan9 doesn't have chown or anything
Hey,
On 20 May 2012 15:43, Burton Samograd wrote:
> Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on plan9 and
> what
> is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups of files? Thanks.
I think you're looking for chgrp -u.
cls
I had hg complaining about the owner of the system wide hgrc on 9front so
I did what I thought was most obvious and tried a chown of the file. No chown.
So I did a google and found that plan9 doesn't have chown or anything like chown
because that concept doesn't exist on plan9. This seems a bit f
