From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 08:04:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: give a better diagnostic when only the group is being changed
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_10~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf302e3bc9af0b3e639b52a96e077c3199f2cf4e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

give a better diagnostic when only the group is being changed
---

diff --git a/src/chown-core.c b/src/chown-core.c
index 2899f587b5..0d7a1c43d6 100644
--- a/src/chown-core.c
+++ b/src/chown-core.c
@@ -245,7 +245,9 @@ change_file_owner (int cmdline_arg, const char *file, uid_t user, gid_t group,
 	  if (fail)
 	    {
 	      if (chopt->force_silent == 0)
-		error (0, saved_errno, _("changing ownership of %s"),
+		error (0, saved_errno, (user != (uid_t) -1
+					? _("changing ownership of %s")
+					: _("changing group of %s")),
 		       quote (file));
 	      errors = 1;
 	    }