From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 05:17:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: .
X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-1_16a~180
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ed7bf6069bf4888e1abfe58f86d0843db06f462;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

.
---

diff --git a/lib/chown.c b/lib/chown.c
index 2d3b4e8212..1d3346d364 100644
--- a/lib/chown.c
+++ b/lib/chown.c
@@ -34,8 +34,17 @@ chown (file, gid, uid)
 {
   if (gid == (gid_t) -1 || uid == (uid_t) -1)
     {
-      /* Stat file to get id(s) that will remain unchanged.  */
-      FIXME
+      struct stat file_stats;
+
+      /* Stat file to get id(s) that should remain unchanged.  */
+      if (stat (file, &file_stats))
+	return 1;
+
+      if (gid == (gid_t) -1)
+	gid = file_stats.st_gid;
+
+      if (uid == (uid_t) -1)
+	uid = file_stats.st_uid;
     }
 
 #undef chown