Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:40:07 -0800 (PST) From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/36447: chown(8) manual misdescribes handling of symlinks Message-ID: <200203290640.g2T6e7R22245@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/36447; it has been noted by GNATS. From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/36447: chown(8) manual misdescribes handling of symlinks Date: 28 Mar 2002 22:31:55 -0800 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes: > True. But one who has read the descriptionn of -H, -L and -R above already > knows that chown(1) handles symlinks specially. No need to repeat what has > already been written above, IMHO. First, those only apply when using -R. Second, it's not enough to know that there is special handling; something needs to describe the handling and it shouldn't, like the -h description, describe it wrongly. I don't see that I've repeated anything, except the mention of -h in the program description because the current description is not true without -h. Does not the -h description imply that "the file that the link points to" will be changed in the absense of -h? In fact, that file will not be changed (unless that dangerous trailing slash feature/bug is used). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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