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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-02-27 11:19:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-02-27 11:19:40 +0000 |
| commit | 9c1810823d4301a166e2208d7f667bf4fe3fea4c (patch) | |
| tree | 96b6d100a2dd420b1d54146839d686f4121eaad8 /old/fileutils | |
| parent | f25e10f24d7a891304887ea386872cdfbcbbe529 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-9c1810823d4301a166e2208d7f667bf4fe3fea4c.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index f077bf1c2..277125fda 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ Changes in release 4.1: [4.0q] +* chown now works properly when the specified login name contains a period + This is at the expense of always looking up the entire USER.GROUP string + as a login name first, and only then (upon failure) interpreting the `.' + as a separator and looking up `USER'. To avoid the extra getpwnam call, + always use the POSIX-mandated `:' character as the separator. * `du some-other-dir' no longer fails if it can't open the current directory * `mv DIR EXISTING-FILE' no longer removes EXISTING-FILE. Now it gets an error as POSIX says it must. |