From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 9:24: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E8337B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240F743E42 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:23:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd00.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18EC6Q-0000Yi-04; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:23:58 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[80.131.109.186]) by fmrl00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18EC69-0388WmC; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:23:41 +0100 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAJHNUZ7028022; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:23:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gAJHNUo7009396; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:23:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:23:30 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: olli@secnetix.de Subject: Re: Asking for tester (small patch to chown(8)/chgrp(1)) Message-Id: <20021119182330.56eec6d1.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <200211172001.gAHK1XvB087101@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20021117155159.44aeae5f.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <200211172001.gAHK1XvB087101@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:01:33 +0100 (CET) Oliver Fromme wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > The patch adds an option -r to chown(8) and chgrp(1), which > > > does pretty much the same as the -r option of touch(1) and > > > truncate(1). Basically, it let's you "copy" ownerships and > > > group memberships from one file to another, which is useful > > > in scripts. > > > > I'm concerned about the used character: "-r" is similiar to "-R" > > Why exactly is that cause for concern? Because "cp" uses "-r" in the same way chown uses "-R". > What character would you suggest instead? touch(1) and > truncate(1) also use "-r". But they don't work recursivly. What about "-c" (_c_opy)? Bye, Alexander. -- There's no place like ~ http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message