Am Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:25:03PM +0000 schrieb RVP: > On Fri, 28 Apr 2023, Paul Goyette wrote: > > > I propose the attached enhancement to chown/chgrp to avoid setting > > a new user/group value if the desired values are already set. The > > change is pretty simple. > > > > I don't think we need a flag for this. I think what you're proposing > should just be the default behaviour.
chown updates st_ctim, so this would be a user-visible change. I wouldn't also be surprised if there are filesystems where chown can result in additional metadata changes, e.g. dropping ACLs? Joerg
