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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:52:00 -0500
From: Jon LaBadie <jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: ssh-host-config suggestion (was: Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.5p1-1)
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:10:26PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > - could `chown' be modified to complain if it fails to do the work it
> >   was supposed to do?  It seems that the exit status is 0, and besides
> >   that the script simply does not care about the exit status of chown.
> 
> Tricky.  The problem (and the reason the script doesn't test the return
> code) is, there are several conditions for having a working chown.  It
> must be NT/2K/XP, ntsec must be on, FS must be NTFS.  The chown(2) syscall
> returns intentionally always 0 if any of these conditions isn't met.

That behavior seems rather "non-unix-like".  If chown(2) fails to work
shouldn't return an error status, and possibly set ERRNO.  Then chown(1)
could report a reasonable error message and exit status.

The script could continue to ignore the chown(1) success or failure
at its own peril.

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