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From: Florian Schneider <mlist-catcher@×××.net>
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 19:59:01
Message-Id: 200310072200.10401.mlist-catcher@gmx.net
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems by Jeffrey Smelser
1 Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 21:48 schrieb Jeffrey Smelser:
2 > That's odd, I just got done installing a gentoo box a few days ago. chown
3 > -R $user.users work many times over when I was bringing my old home
4 > directories over...
5 >
6 > you sure that's a actual bug??
7
8 At least chown user.group does work according to the NEWS file item from
9 coreutils below.
10
11 It says:
12
13 > - chown: `.' is no longer recognized as a separator in the OWNER:GROUP
14 > specifier on POSIX 1003.1-2001 systems. If chown *was not* compiled
15 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
16 > on such a system, then it still accepts `.', by default. If chown
17 > was compiled on a POSIX 1003.1-2001 system, then you may enable the
18 > old behavior by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your environment.
19
20 BTW: I use linux-2.6.0-test5-love3 with glibc-2.3.2-r5 and nptl and the ~x86
21 arch keyword.
22
23 So I think very few ppl will be affected by this, but in a few months things
24 may change.
25
26 Can anyone reproduce the bug/problem/issue?
27
28 Florian
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