GNU Core Utilities - Bugs: bug #19649, chown major behaviour change
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bug #19649: chown major behaviour change
Submitter: | None | ||
Submitted: | Fri 20 Apr 2007 10:35:01 PM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Severity: | 3 - Normal |
Item Group: | None | Status: | Wont Fix |
Privacy: | Public | Assigned to: | None |
Open/Closed: | Closed |
Fri 20 Apr 2007 11:50:43 PM UTC, comment #1: |
Paul Eggert <eggert> |
Fri 20 Apr 2007 10:35:01 PM UTC, original submission:
I don't see any place to set who this is from so for future reference -email is unavailable-
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2007-04-20 | eggert | Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |
2007-04-20 | eggert | Status | None | Wont Fix |
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Corresponding source code
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.