if i create a dangling symbolic link within a tree, "chown -RH top-of-tree" gets me a "cannot dereference" error.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE: cd /tmp mkdir chown-test cd chown-test ln -s poop parp cd .. chown -RH :nogroup chown-test ACTUAL OUTPUT: chown: cannot dereference `chown-test/parp': No such file or directory chown: changing group of `chown-test': Operation not permitted EXPECTED BEHAVIOR: i don't think chown should try to dereference the dangling symbolic link. looking at the source, i think affect_symlink_referent should be false. i think the code in chown.c's main() should be more like the code in chcon.c's main(), but that both should be changed to test (bit_flags & FTS_PHYSICAL) rather than (bit_flags == FTS_PHYSICAL), because -H sets bit_flags to FTS_COMFOLLOW | FTS_PHYSICAL. alternatively, i could have completely misunderstood the intended behavior of -RH. but it seems to me like -H should cause only symbolic links explicitly named on the command-line to be dereferenced. -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
