Re: coretutils package produces the ownership issue during "mv" command execution.

[Pádraig Brady]

On 05/14/2013 11:14 AM, Koteswararao Nelakurthi wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     On 05/14/2013 10:15 AM, Koteswararao Nelakurthi wrote:
>     > lchown("/media/sda2/aaa", 0, 0)         = 0
>     > write(2, "mv: ", 4mv: )                     = 4
>     > write(2, "failed to preserve ownership for"..., 48failed to preserve 
> ownership for /media/sda2/aaa) = 48
>     > write(2, ": Function not implemented", 26: Function not implemented) = 
> 26
> 
>     So that suggests the lchown worked but the warning was printed anyway.
>     There is nothing I can see in the upstream source that would cause that.
>     Perhaps a local change between coreutils-8.5-r6.0.6 and 
> coreutils-8.5-r6.0.7
>     is causing this?
> 
> Dear Padraig Brady,
> 
> Thanks again for your valuable response.
> May I know to how to check the difference
> (May be patches wise) between r6.0.6 to
> r6.0.7 of coreutils package
> Probably..by looking at git web interface
> of coreutils package ?
> can we find the same?
> 
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog

The difference to coreutils_8.5-r6.0.6 and coreutils_8.5-r6.0.7 is not
in the coreutils project, but in your distro.  I had a quick look for
source for these and while the first gave a few hits, I didn't
see any repos to view history. I'll leave it yo you to determine
the differences.

thanks,
Pádraig.