Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:

[Jim Meyering]

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.