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diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog
index e74e52ed7e1df057eae26f82422745a79d469032..db40173ffe27b3d9c7dfc31f3ea5b9bb7dd8ab4d 100644 (file)
--- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 2000-05-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>
 
        * src/install.c (change_attributes): Don't even attempt the chmod
-       if the chown fails.  Reported by Marc Olzheim.
+       if the chown fails.  Before, when a non-root user ran `install -m 4755
+       -o nobody FILE DEST', DEST would set-uid not to `nobody' but rather to
+       the ID of the installing user.  Reported by Marc Olzheim.
 
 2000-04-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>
 

diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS
index 58c1181370556c450ab8eccd9e73df6df61f6ad2..cd5afb311125a89315f9f02daef9ea9c073cf23f 100644 (file)
--- a/old/fileutils/NEWS
+++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 Changes in release 4.1:
+[4.0s]
+* install no longer performs chmod if chown fails (see ChangeLog for example)
 [4.0r]
 * `du dir/subdir1 dir/subdir2' no longer fails
 * chown accepts new option: --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP