From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 28 22:40:14 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 83D1C37B41A for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2T6e7R22245; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:40:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:40:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203290640.g2T6e7R22245@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Subject: Re: docs/36447: chown(8) manual misdescribes handling of symlinks Reply-To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) 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: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas 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 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