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Re: coreutils-5.2.1: test failure - chgrp/posix-H


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: coreutils-5.2.1: test failure - chgrp/posix-H
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 00:23:13 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> If anyone knows how to test chown(2) -- to see if it dereferences symlinks --
> when called by a non-root user with only one group, please let me know.

Can't you do something like this?

      ln -s nosuchfile danglingsymlink

      if (chown ("danglingsymlink", getuid (), getgid ()) != 0
          && errno == ENOENT)
        print ("chown follows symlinks");
      else
        print ("chown does not follow symlinks");




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