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;
--
``There has to be a balance between telling the truth and reassurance.''
(David Blunkett, on terrorist alerts)
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