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From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/45333: [patch] New option -r for chown(8) and chgrp(1)
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The following reply was made to PR bin/45333; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, olli@secnetix.de
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Subject: Re: bin/45333: [patch] New option -r for chown(8) and chgrp(1)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:36:16 -0700

 Don't think these sets of patches should be considered as using -r
 would break compatibility with -R use in GNU-land =\...
 Besides, Peter came up with a decent workaround [use stat(1)], which
 has been in -STABLE for quite some time.
 -Garrett