RE: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems

[Jeffrey Smelser]

I guess from what i see, if your bleeding edge your affected.. But alas, it will be a problem soon ..

Sorry to budge in.. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Schneider [mailto:mlist-catcher@×××.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:00 PM
> To: gentoo-dev@g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on
> new systems
>
>
> Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 21:48 schrieb Jeffrey Smelser:
> > That's odd, I just got done installing a gentoo box a few
> days ago. chown
> > -R $user.users work many times over when I was bringing my old home
> > directories over...
> >
> > you sure that's a actual bug??
>
> At least chown user.group does work according to the NEWS
> file item from
> coreutils below.
>
> It says:
>
> > - chown: `.' is no longer recognized as a separator in the
> OWNER:GROUP
> >   specifier on POSIX 1003.1-2001 systems.  If chown *was
> not* compiled
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >   on such a system, then it still accepts `.', by default.  If chown
> >   was compiled on a POSIX 1003.1-2001 system, then you may
> enable the
> >   old behavior by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your
> environment.
>
> BTW: I use linux-2.6.0-test5-love3 with glibc-2.3.2-r5 and
> nptl and the ~x86
> arch keyword.
>
> So I think very few ppl will be affected by this, but in a
> few months things
> may change.
>
> Can anyone reproduce the bug/problem/issue?
>
> Florian
>
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