Re: Accepted coreutils 5.0.90-1 (i386 source all)
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:54:57PM -0400, you wrote:
> >But for chown:
>
> I wrote the changelog entry before I decided to do the posix hack. It
> was true at the time. :) The back-ported changelog entry is:
>
> - chown: `.' is no longer recognized as a separator when POSIX2
> version is >= 200112
>
> That will probably change again because the LSB (*really stupidly*)
> mandates that chown accept the '.'.
Why not have chown issue a warning if '.' is used?
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