From c25bd1c9ce29d452b11fd6f0885deb31f994df95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:02:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] "chown : file", "chown '' file", and "chgrp '' file" now
 succeed without changing the uid and gid, like FreeBSD.

---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 31f459bd70..4c4f6ca597 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
     incorrect, as it failed to update the last-changed time and reset
     special permission bits, as POSIX requires.
 
+    "chown : file", "chown '' file", and "chgrp '' file" now succeed
+    without changing the uid or gid, instead of reporting an error.
+
     Do not report an error if the owner or group of a
     recursively-encountered symbolic link cannot be updated because
     the file system does not support it.
-- 
2.47.2