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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-05-17 12:07:25 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-05-17 12:07:25 +0000 |
commit | 3591f10746db90fdb682acb4421e95ddc9c5785e (patch) | |
tree | 9d163d0c9f54b619d4d2a3cb3338e5b4619d289c | |
parent | 37adce26809835f0ea8d96035e1f9cd93ab22645 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-3591f10746db90fdb682acb4421e95ddc9c5785e.tar.xz |
chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
(chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 5e5b8d17a..e1518356b 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7954,6 +7954,7 @@ chown -R --from=OLDUSER NEWUSER / @cindex symbolic links, changing owner @findex lchown Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to. +This is the default. @item -h @itemx --no-dereference @@ -7962,7 +7963,6 @@ Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to. @cindex symbolic links, changing owner @findex lchown Act on symbolic links themselves instead of what they point to. -This is the default. This mode relies on the @code{lchown} system call. On systems that do not provide the @code{lchown} system call, @command{chown} fails when a file specified on the command line @@ -8063,6 +8063,7 @@ changed. @cindex symbolic links, changing owner @findex lchown Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to. +This is the default. @item -h @itemx --no-dereference @@ -8071,7 +8072,6 @@ Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to. @cindex symbolic links, changing group @findex lchown Act on symbolic links themselves instead of what they point to. -This is the default. This mode relies on the @code{lchown} system call. On systems that do not provide the @code{lchown} system call, @command{chgrp} fails when a file specified on the command line |