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| -rw-r--r-- | old/fileutils/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | old/fileutils/NEWS | 2 |
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog index e74e52ed7..db40173ff 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog +++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ 2000-05-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com> * src/install.c (change_attributes): Don't even attempt the chmod - if the chown fails. Reported by Marc Olzheim. + if the chown fails. Before, when a non-root user ran `install -m 4755 + -o nobody FILE DEST', DEST would set-uid not to `nobody' but rather to + the ID of the installing user. Reported by Marc Olzheim. 2000-04-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com> diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index 58c118137..cd5afb311 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ Changes in release 4.1: +[4.0s] +* install no longer performs chmod if chown fails (see ChangeLog for example) [4.0r] * `du dir/subdir1 dir/subdir2' no longer fails * chown accepts new option: --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP |