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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-08-19 20:02:07 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-08-19 20:02:07 +0000
commitc25bd1c9ce29d452b11fd6f0885deb31f994df95 (patch)
tree823ac6ed7ddd21c92661b5757f98d52411caaf94
parent6bf086b8209430747feadbc678deb795b21a1ed4 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-c25bd1c9ce29d452b11fd6f0885deb31f994df95.tar.xz
"chown : file", "chown '' file", and "chgrp '' file" now
succeed without changing the uid and gid, like FreeBSD.
-rw-r--r--NEWS3
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 31f459bd7..4c4f6ca59 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
incorrect, as it failed to update the last-changed time and reset
special permission bits, as POSIX requires.
+ "chown : file", "chown '' file", and "chgrp '' file" now succeed
+ without changing the uid or gid, instead of reporting an error.
+
Do not report an error if the owner or group of a
recursively-encountered symbolic link cannot be updated because
the file system does not support it.