Bug 2722 – chown/chgrp different behavior on bad symlinks

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Bug 2722 - chown/chgrp different behavior on bad symlinks

Summary:	chown/chgrp different behavior on bad symlinks

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	fileutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Cristian Gafton
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Duplicates:	2374 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	1999-05-10 17:03 EDT by Cristian Gafton
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	1999-10-04 12:37:10 EDT
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Description Cristian Gafton 1999-05-10 17:03:09 EDT

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

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-05-11 10:51:59 EDT

*** 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 2001-02-07 19:35:04 EST

Seems to work since at least 6.2...

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