Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Opinions?

This change would make GNU chown behave like BSD chown (at least, I
just now checked FreeBSD), so I'd say it's a simple compatibility fix
and does not need a long phase-in period.  (Of course if you prefer
being conservative that's fine too.)