From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 2 13:43:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259C437B419 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:43:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g32Lhgq00995; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:43:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:51:39 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36447: [PATCH] chown(8) Message-Id: <20020402165139.34eb1288.darklogik@pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <858z85949h.z85@localhost.localdomain> References: <200204020300.g32305236624@freefall.freebsd.org> <858z85949h.z85@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02 Apr 2002 13:31:22 -0800 swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > writes: > > > Gary, how does the following patch look? I omitted the sentence > > under the description where you asked symlink(7) be mentioned. > > symlink(7) is in the see also section, I changed the description > > to one that I feel is satisfactory, I also think that -h is good > > now. If anything, perhaps we should cut everything, including > > ``rather'' after the-h option. But its your PR. > > You're probably right about the -h. So I'd make it: > > -h If the file is a symbolic link, do change its > user ID and/or group ID. > > (Or omit the emphasis if you'd like.) > > I feel bad that the manual doesn't describe how the command treats > files named with a trailing slash, which is rather dangerous from a > security aspect, but let's leave it for another PR. Good idea. I read over your symlink(7) PR. That sounds like a chunk of work to do. Carefully am I picking my PR's when it comes to manual pages, as I have limited experiance in mdoc(7), which i'll freely admit hehe. -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message