Bug 2722

Summary:	chown/chgrp different behavior on bad symlinks
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
Component:	fileutils	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	paolo.saggese, pbrown
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Description Cristian Gafton 1999-05-10 21:03:09 UTC

chown -f exits with a 0 on a bad symlink
chgrp -f does not

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-05-11 14:51:59 UTC

*** Bug 2374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

the fixperms macro bombs out if chown or chgrp fails.  This
isn't the behaviour that RPM 2.5 had.  While it is only a
configuration issue, it seems to make sense to me that the
default behaviour is to be backwards compatible with 2.5.

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 2001-02-08 00:35:04 UTC

Seems to work since at least 6.2...