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+#!/bin/sh
+# For coreutils-5.2.1 and earlier, chown --dereference would skip
+# symlinks having owner/group matching the specified owner/group.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2004-2012 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/>.
+
+. "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src
+print_ver_ chown
+
+ln -s no-such dangle || framework_failure_
+
+
+set _ $(ls -ldo dangle); shift; user=$3
+
+# With 5.2.1 and earlier, this command would mistakenly succeed.
+chown --dereference $user dangle 2> out1 && fail=1
+sed 's/: [^:]*$//' out1 > out
+
+cat <<\EOF > exp || fail=1
+chown: cannot dereference 'dangle'
+EOF
+
+compare exp out || fail=1
+
+Exit $fail