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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-05-17 12:07:25 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-05-17 12:07:25 +0000
commit3591f10746db90fdb682acb4421e95ddc9c5785e (patch)
tree9d163d0c9f54b619d4d2a3cb3338e5b4619d289c /doc
parent37adce26809835f0ea8d96035e1f9cd93ab22645 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-3591f10746db90fdb682acb4421e95ddc9c5785e.tar.xz
chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
(chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
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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