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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
chown(1) behaves as if the -h option were specified, even
if it is not. For instance:
# touch Q
# ln -s Q R
# ls -ln Q R
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 0 2005-12-09 19:21 Q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 1 2005-12-09 19:21 R -> Q
# chown 65535:65535 R
# ls -ln Q R
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 0 2005-12-09 19:21 Q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 65535 65535 1 2005-12-09 19:21 R -> Q
-- that should have changed the ownership of Q. If we
pass the nonstandard option --dereference, we get the
default behaviour:
# chown --dereference 65534:65534 R
# ls -ln Q R
-rw-r--r-- 1 65534 65534 0 2005-12-09 19:21 Q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 65535 65535 1 2005-12-09 19:21 R -> Q
This is correct in the current GNU version of coreutils
(5.93) and broken in 5.2.1.
I believe that the following patch is sufficient to fix
the problem:
--- coreutils-5.2.1/src/chown-core.c.orig Fri Dec 9 19:31:24 2005
+++ coreutils-5.2.1/src/chown-core.c Fri Dec 9 19:31:32 2005
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
{
chopt->verbosity = V_off;
chopt->root_dev_ino = NULL;
- chopt->affect_symlink_referent = false;
+ chopt->affect_symlink_referent = true;
chopt->recurse = false;
chopt->force_silent = false;
chopt->user_name = 0;
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/w$ rm -rf *
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/w$ touch Q
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/w$ ln -s Q R
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/w$ ls -ln Q R
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 0 2005-12-22 16:14 Q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1001 1001 1 2005-12-22 16:14 R -> Q
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/w$ sudo chown root:root R
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/w$ ls -ln Q R
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 0 2005-12-22 16:14 Q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1001 1001 1 2005-12-22 16:14 R -> Q
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/w$ chown --version
chown (GNU coreutils) 5.93
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
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