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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-10-15 21:21:34 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-10-15 21:21:34 +0000
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+2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
+ chown and chgrp now accept POSIX-mandated -H, -L, -P options and
+ use fts to perform a directory traversal when -R is specified.
+ Before, they used explicit recursion, and as such were limited by
+ the user's stack size to handling hierarchies no deeper than
+ about 30,000 levels.
+
+ * src/chown.c: Include "userspec.h" and "fts_.h".
+ (WRITTEN_BY): Add my name.
+ (getpwnam, getgrnam, getgrgid): Remove declarations.
+ (endpwent): Remove definition.
+ (usage): Update.
+ (main): Handle new options.
+ Call new function, chown_files rather than change_file_owner.
+
+ * src/chgrp.c: Include "fts_.h".
+ (WRITTEN_BY): Add my name.
+ (MAXUID, MAXGID): Remove definitions. Use GID_T_MAX instead of
+ the latter.
+ (usage): Update.
+ (main): Handle new options.
+ Call new function, chown_files rather than change_file_owner.
+
+ Rewrite to iterate through hierarchies using fts rather than
+ via explicit recursion.
+ * src/chown-core.c: Include "fts_.h"
+ (change_file_owner): Rewrite to use FTS* and FTSENT* and to operate
+ on a single file at a time.
+ (chown_files): New function.
+ * src/chown-core.h [enum Dereference_symlink]: Remove declaration.
+ [struct Chown_option] (recurse, force_silent): Change type to `bool'.
+ [struct Chown_option] (dereference): Remove member with ambiguous name.
+ [struct Chown_option] (affect_symlink_referent): New member.
+ (chown_files): New prototype.
+
+ * src/ln.c (usage): Clarify that --directory, -d, -F probably won't
+ work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
+
2003-10-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
Fix some number-parsing bugs, e.g., "head -n 100k@" wasn't