From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 1 19: 0:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3766F37B405 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g32305236624; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:00:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200204020300.g32305236624@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Subject: Re: docs/36447: [PATCH] chown(8) Reply-To: 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 The following reply was made to PR docs/36447; it has been noted by GNATS. From: To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/36447: [PATCH] chown(8) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:50:25 -0800 (PST) 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. -- Tom (darklogik) Rhodes --- chown.8.old Mon Apr 1 21:41:30 2002 +++ chown.8 Mon Apr 1 21:52:17 2002 @@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ .Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Chown -sets the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified files. +changes the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified files. +Symbolic links named by arguments are silently left unchanged unless +.Op Fl h +is used. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds @@ -82,8 +85,9 @@ Don't report any failure to change file owner or group, nor modify the exit status to reflect such failures. .It Fl h -If the file is a symbolic link, change the user ID and/or the group ID -of the link itself rather than the file that the link points to. +If the file is a symbolic link, change the user ID and/or the +group ID of the link itself rather than silently leaving the link +unchanged. .It Fl v Cause .Nm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message