chown on AIX 7.1BETA

[Bruno Haible]

The logs show:

checking whether chown honors trailing slash... no

gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works=${gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works=no}

I'm updating the documentation.


2010-07-30  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        chown: Update doc regarding AIX.
        * doc/posix-functions/chown.texi: Mention bug on AIX 7.1.
        * m4/chown.m4 (gl_FUNC_CHOWN): Update comment.
        Reported by Rainer Tammer.

--- m4/chown.m4.orig    Fri Jul 30 18:44:35 2010
+++ m4/chown.m4 Fri Jul 30 11:28:42 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# serial 22
+# serial 23
 # Determine whether we need the chown wrapper.
 
 dnl Copyright (C) 1997-2001, 2003-2005, 2007, 2009-2010 Free Software
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
     dnl Solaris 9 ignores trailing slash.
     dnl FreeBSD 7.2 mishandles trailing slash on symlinks.
+    dnl Likewise for AIX 7.1.
     AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether chown honors trailing slash],
       [gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works],
       [touch conftest.file && rm -f conftest.link
--- doc/posix-functions/chown.texi.orig Fri Jul 30 18:44:34 2010
+++ doc/posix-functions/chown.texi      Fri Jul 30 11:27:56 2010
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 @item
 Some platforms fail to detect trailing slash on non-directories, as in
 @code{chown("link-to-file/",uid,gid)}:
-FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9.
+FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9.
 @item
 Some platforms fail to update the change time when at least one
 argument was not -1, but no ownership changes resulted: