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-rw-r--r--NEWS3
-rw-r--r--tests/Makefile.am1
-rwxr-xr-xtests/chmod/silent36
3 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6a85dd756..ca87b23db 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
+ chgrp, chmod, chown --silent (--quiet, -f) no longer print some diagnostics
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1]
+
cp uses much less memory in some situations
du --files0-from=FILE no longer reads all of FILE into RAM before
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index 2122ea75a..8dbbe9f26 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ TESTS = \
chmod/inaccessible \
chmod/octal \
chmod/setgid \
+ chmod/silent \
chmod/thru-dangling \
chmod/umask-x \
chmod/usage \
diff --git a/tests/chmod/silent b/tests/chmod/silent
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d61caf553
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/chmod/silent
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# ensure that chgrp, chmod, chown -f don't print some diagnostics
+
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+ set -x
+ chgrp --version
+ chmod --version
+ chown --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/test-lib.sh
+
+fail=0
+chmod -f 0 no-such 2> out && fail=1
+chgrp -f 0 no-such 2>> out && fail=1
+chown -f 0:0 no-such 2>> out && fail=1
+touch exp || fail=1
+
+compare out exp || fail=1
+
+Exit $fail