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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:28:39 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bug in chown()
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On Jan 13 06:40, Eric Blake wrote:
> In trying to get the newly released coreutils 5.3.0 tarball working on
> cygwin, I discovered that cygwin chown() has a bug.  Background:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-01/msg00064.html

Do you intend to take over maintainership of coreutils?  I would be *so*
happy!

Did you see my Cygwin specific patches in the source tar archive of
coreutils 5.2.1 in the Cygwin net distro?  It's all in the subdirectory
called "CYGWIN", diffs and ChangeLogs.

> POSIX requires that "chown() shall mark for update the st_ctime field of
> the file" if successful and at least one of owner or group was not -1.
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/chown.html
> 
> However, in cygwin, chown() appears to have no effect whatsoever on the
> change time.  (gid_t)0 is the 'root' group.  I tested this on a WinXP

I'm going to fix that.


Thanks,
Corinna

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