bugGNU 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: 

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.

Paul Eggert <eggert>
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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-

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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    2007-04-20 eggert Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2007-04-20 eggert StatusNone Wont Fix

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