Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:21:58 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asking for tester (small patch to chown(8)/chgrp(1)) Message-ID: <20021121152158.A56883@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20021120132743.5a46abbe.Alexander@Leidinger.net>; from Alexander@Leidinger.net on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:27:43PM %2B0100 References: <200211161129.gAGBTKHJ033124@lurza.secnetix.de> <20021117155159.44aeae5f.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <200211181807.gAII7u0w015430@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021119182700.GA3030@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021120132743.5a46abbe.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:27:43PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:00 -0800 > David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > > > > > I'm concerned about the used character: "-r" is similiar to "-R" > > > > > > Yes, `-r' would be a very poor choice for the reason you state. > > > > Agreed, but the precedent has already been set by touch(1) and > > truncate(1). If we're going to get it wrong some of the time, we > > might as well be consistent about it. > > When we don't look at the fact that neither touch nor truncate operate > recursivly... what about changing touch and truncate to allow the > proposed -c (or -i) too and mark -r as deprecated (if it isn't covered > by a standard)? I'd really rather that we didn't change this at all, even if it seems "inconsistent". Changing it would just lead to more confusion. I am also against adding new options to chown to copy ownership from existing files. Copy ownership: chown `stat -f%Su file1` file2 Copy group: chgrp `stat -f%Sg file1` file2 Copy both: chown `stat -f%Su:%Sg file1` file2 These could easily be made into shell functions or whatever... Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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