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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Requirements for UID/GID management
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 18:03:51
Message-Id: slrno9c5rj.p72.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Requirements for UID/GID management by Christopher Head
1 Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca> wrote:
2 >
3 > Are you sure that said utility isn't simply chown --from=?
4
5 As usual, I just checked the POSIX standard and not the
6 GNU extensions before posting ;)
7
8 I did now a quick audit of the coreutils-8.25 source:
9 It seems to be safely implemented in the way I mentioned.