[PATCHES] glibc 2.1, Linux, and chown

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Sat Dec 12 23:16:00 GMT 1998


Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:

> It is simple enough for Debian to call lchown, and DTRT if it fails.
> I don't see why glibc has to get involved at all.

This is my opinion as well.  If a program assumes the old, broken
behaviour it has to be fixed.

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