>> For the BSD -H/-L/-P options, which control file tree walking: >> >> -P = --walk=physical >> -H = --walk=hybrid (I have no idea what -H originally stood for.) >> -L = --walk=logical
As a minor point I'm now thinking that it might be clearer to make these options operands of --recursive instead, e.g., --recursive=physical. This is because -P/-H/-L makes no sense without -R. >> * Minor suggestion: "chown : file" should invoke chown with uid and >> gid both set to -1, so that the file ownership and group doesn't >> change but the setuid/setgid bits are cleared (and perhaps ACLs are >> removed). This might be useful. > > POSIX seems to require owner[:group]. > Is it compliant to accept `:'? Yes, as an upward-compatible extension. GNU chown already accepts ":group" as an extension, for example. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
