Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A similar issue arises with the chown command, e.g., > which of the following should set the author to 'ams'? > > chown eggert:staff:ams foo > chown eggert:ams:staff foo > chown ams:eggert:staff foo
I think it would make sense to have chown never change the author field at all (or at least use a separate option for that, like --author=nisse). The purpose of the author field is quite different from the owner and group information (which I view as primarily an access control tool). So it makes sense to let chown only manipulate the fields that matter for access control, and use a different program, chauthor, for changing the author field. Regards, /Niels _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
