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Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] bug: chown and symlinks
From:       lenaerts.frank () pandora ! be (Frank Lenaerts)
Date:       2004-04-27 21:52:16
Message-ID: 20040427215216.GA17551 () galaxy
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:58:48PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:05:34 +0200
> Frank Lenaerts <lenaerts.frank@pandora.be> wrote:
> 
> > Busybox chown follows the symlink and changes the ownerships of the
> > file pointed to instead of the ownerships of the symlink itself while
> > GNU chown changes the ownerships of the symlink itself.
> 
> The manpage of GNU chown, and the posix spec say the -h option should
> make it act on the symlink rather than the file the symlink points to.

Hmm, I never noticed this option and got used to the behaviour without
using the option.

> So i think busybox's behaviour is reasonable.

I agree.

> Glenn

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