[bug #19649] chown major behaviour change

[anonymous]

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                 Summary: chown major behaviour change
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Friday 04/20/2007 at 22:35 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I don't see any place to set who this is from so for future reference
address@hidden

In atleast 5.97 chown now works on the target of a symlink rather than a
symlink.  This has NEVER been the case with any version of chown.  This leads
to unexpected results on GNU systems as even on GNU systems chown hasn't
functioned like this.  Bug was discovered in Debian coreutils 5.97-5.3,
marked and reported as such by myself.




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