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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@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 20:09:19
Message-Id: 200310071609.26047.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems by Florian Schneider
1 On Tuesday 07 October 2003 16:00, Florian Schneider wrote:
2 > So I think very few ppl will be affected by this, but in a few months
3 > things may change.
4
5 yes, few people, but why wait ?
6
7 > Can anyone reproduce the bug/problem/issue?
8
9 uhh just read the source code :p
10 but if thats not good enough:
11 root@vapier 0 root # chown root:root f
12 root@vapier 0 root # chown root.root f
13 chown: `root.root': invalid user
14 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems Florian Schneider <mlist-catcher@×××.net>