From 3591f10746db90fdb682acb4421e95ddc9c5785e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:07:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX. (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.47.3