Hi, if I understand it correctly, chown clears the setuid bit for security reasons (since, when changing the owner or group for a file, you could potentially be allowing *new people* to run that file as root).
While this is good for security, sometimes you want to be able to preserve the setuid bit. For example, when packaging software (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1600551) What do you think about adding a "--preserve-setuid" optional flag? Regards, William
