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bug#61720: BUG: omission of crucial detail in 'chown --reference' man pa
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Michael Coleman |
Subject: |
bug#61720: BUG: omission of crucial detail in 'chown --reference' man page (vs info) |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:07:27 +0000 |
Hi,
The (RHEL 7) man page for GNU 'chown' has (only) this for the '--reference'
flag:
use RFILE's owner and group rather than specifying OWNER:GROUP values
which omits the crucial second sentence, included in the info tree:
Change the user and group of each FILE to be the same as those of
REF_FILE. If REF_FILE is a symbolic link, do not use the user and
group of the symbolic link, but rather those of the file it refers
to.
(Note that '--no-deference' doesn't affect this behavior.)
I can't be sure, but I think the GNU build itself is generating this man page,
as opposed to it having been created by RHEL.
I understand that the man pages are secondary and brief, but they shouldn't be
actively misleading, IMO.
Thanks,
Mike
Michael Coleman
Computational Scientist
Research Advanced Computing Services (HPC)
University of Oregon
- bug#61720: BUG: omission of crucial detail in 'chown --reference' man page (vs info),
Michael Coleman <=