Re: chown should catch null owner:group

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Re: chown should catch null owner:group

From:	Paul Eggert
Subject:	Re: chown should catch null owner:group
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:19:58 -0800
User-agent:	Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden writes:

> Please don't let me get away with
> # chown : file...

Is this just an academic worry, or were you really bitten by it?
There is some advantage in shell-script programming to having chown be
orthogonal.

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