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Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER: |
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Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:31:17 +0100 |
Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>> Since the above behavior is not specified by POSIX, and
>> is IMHO, counter-intuitive, I propose to change it. However,
>> it is documented both in coreutils and in cpio's manuals.
>
> I'm not particularly bound to this feature, but it was here for such a
> long time that removing it now will break a lot of existing scripts and
> force many people to change their habits. I'd rather not do it.
Thanks for all the feedback.
Obviously, with so many people actually using it,
I won't change the behavior.
- chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Jim Meyering, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Andreas Schwab, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Paul Eggert, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Brian K. White, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Bob Proulx, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009/12/03
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:,
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