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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
