From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 09:28:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (DO_CHOWN): Don't fail for non-root when chown fails due
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-3_16l~12
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0eba2a8dd7c62083374ca50d49f334582c627b18;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(DO_CHOWN): Don't fail for non-root when chown fails due
not only to lack of permission (EPERM), but also to lack of support
(EINVAL).  Reported by Bengt Martensson.
---

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index a764d8990f..1a762df856 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@
 #define DO_CHOWN(Chown, File, New_uid, New_gid)				\
   (Chown ((File), (x->myeuid == 0 ? (New_uid) : x->myeuid), (New_gid))	\
    /* If non-root uses -p, it's ok if we can't preserve ownership.	\
-      But root probably wants to know, e.g. if NFS disallows it.  */	\
-   && (errno != EPERM || x->myeuid == 0))
+      But root probably wants to know, e.g. if NFS disallows it,	\
+      or if the target system doesn't support file ownership. */	\
+   && ((errno != EPERM && errno != EINVAL) || x->myeuid == 0))
 
 struct dir_list
 {