I had hg complaining about the owner of the system wide hgrc on 9front so I did what I thought was most obvious and tried a chown of the file. No chown. So I did a google and found that plan9 doesn't have chown or anything like chown because that concept doesn't exist on plan9. This seems a bit funny since an ls -l shows me file owners and groups. I got around not having chown by copying the file and then moving it over the original file.
Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on plan9 and what is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups of files? Thanks. -- Burton Samograd
