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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:09:17 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: chown -R expanding / to //bin etc.
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On Jul 21 17:39, luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au wrote:
> I've noticed that if I do (*) a 
> 
>         chown -R administrator.SYSTEM /
>         
> then chown goes out onto the network and tries to access shares called
> //bin, //var, //usr etc., and can block for long periods, too.
> 
> Now, I do understand that really I should be doing (**)
> 
>         chown -R administrator.SYSTEM `cygpath -w / | sed 's|\\|/|g'`
> 
> to restrict the chown to only affect Cygwin files anyway, but I'm still
> interested in how the spurious //bin etc. names are generated.  (I.e.
> whether that's actually a bug?)

It's a bug in the current chown implementation in that it doesn't
know that leading double slashes has a special meaning on some operating
systems.  I don't know if that's fixed in newer versions of chown.
Since chown is part of coreutils today, it would be nice if we could
find a volunteer to maintain coreutils.


Corinna

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