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Re: chown should catch null owner:group


From: jidanni
Subject: Re: chown should catch null owner:group
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:56:53 +0800

LW> "chown -R ." gave an error
Try
DJ> chown -R . file
which should emit
"Holmes, you think you are changing the owner of FILE to be the same
as the owner of ".", but you have actually typed something else (-R
means recursive) which is an absolute error, about which the new
improved chown command will hereby exit 1".




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