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Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER: |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:09:08 +0200 |
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.
Regards,
Sergey
- 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:, Brian K. White, 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:, Bob Proulx, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:,
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