also sprach Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.08.1036 +0200]:
> The chgrp and chown programs used to restore those bits if/when the
> chown function reset them, but that opened a nasty security hole.

Ah, okay. Let's tag this bug wontfix then. It's not a bug in terms
of POSIX, but it's a bug in terms of what the user would expect.

Cheers, thanks for answering.

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