Michal Politowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.0.91-2 > Severity: normal > > chown user symlink > will change the owner of the symbolic link itself, not the file it is > pointing to. > Using the option --dereference is necessary to change the owner of the file. > Setting POSIXLY_CORRECT doesn't change this, and POSIX mandates changing > owner of the file not the link unless -h option is specified.
Thanks for reporting that. POSIX does seem to require that chown's --dereference behavior be the default. I'll probably change it for the next upstream coreutils release. The same applies to chgrp. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
