From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:07:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1545
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3591f10746db90fdb682acb4421e95ddc9c5785e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
(chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 5e5b8d17a7..e1518356b5 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7954,6 +7954,7 @@ chown -R --from=OLDUSER NEWUSER /
 @cindex symbolic links, changing owner
 @findex lchown
 Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to.
+This is the default.
 
 @item -h
 @itemx --no-dereference
@@ -7962,7 +7963,6 @@ Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to.
 @cindex symbolic links, changing owner
 @findex lchown
 Act on symbolic links themselves instead of what they point to.
-This is the default.
 This mode relies on the @code{lchown} system call.
 On systems that do not provide the @code{lchown} system call,
 @command{chown} fails when a file specified on the command line
@@ -8063,6 +8063,7 @@ changed.
 @cindex symbolic links, changing owner
 @findex lchown
 Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to.
+This is the default.
 
 @item -h
 @itemx --no-dereference
@@ -8071,7 +8072,6 @@ Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to.
 @cindex symbolic links, changing group
 @findex lchown
 Act on symbolic links themselves instead of what they point to.
-This is the default.
 This mode relies on the @code{lchown} system call.
 On systems that do not provide the @code{lchown} system call,
 @command{chgrp} fails when a file specified on the command line