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From: John Mylchreest <johnm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:05:58
Message-Id: 1065557156.25918.4.camel@johnm.willow.local
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems by Jeffrey Smelser
1 On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 20:48, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
2 > 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...
3 >
4 > you sure that's a actual bug??
5
6 I personally can confirm this as well.
7 It does however depend on the POSIX standard the system is complying
8 too, which requires quite bleeding edge for this to occur.
9
10 none the less this should be addressed before it effects too many users,
11 and this is something I am looking into now.
12
13 > > You can read more here:
14 > >
15 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30596
16
17 Regards
18
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21 John Mylchreest.
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