From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 13:28:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7553437B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:28:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C1E43EE6 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:28:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <20021220212841001003m7qoe>; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:28:41 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBKLSOk7002246; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gBKLSI1L002243; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:28:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Mark Cc: Subject: Re: chown broken?? References: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> <200212201412.GBKECSM91804@asarian-host.net> <20021220141504.GB6893@submonkey.net> <200212201448.GBKEMQM99487@asarian-host.net> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 20 Dec 2002 13:28:18 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200212201448.GBKEMQM99487@asarian-host.net> Message-ID: <2klm2k4byl.m2k@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark writes: > Yes, "the directories named on the command line" within the CURRENT > directory. Technically, "." and ".." are entries within the current > directory (try: "od -c ."), and they have inode numbers too. But that does > not deter me from deeming it a bit counter-intuitive to consider ".." a > directory of the current directory. :) Especially in the context of > recursion. The manpage explicitly mentions neither directories or recursion, so I think it doesn't deserve that criticism. But the manpage surely could be made more clear. Feel free to propose something to the Problem Reporting system, preferably with a patch or at least some replacement text. http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message