"Howell, Daniel A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> these days the
> likelihood is that chown does follow symlinks, so maybe the default
> should be changed?
Yes, that's right. That change was made on Jan 18 in gnulib, too late
to get into your tar version, but it'll be in the next tar release:
2005-01-18 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* m4/chown.m4 (gl_FUNC_CHOWN): When cross-compiling, assume that chown
is sane and DOES follow symlinks. Besides, testing 20 different
systems found no broken chown implementations.
Prompted by a change in rsync's copy of this macro.
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