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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/chown.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/chown.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f742e6c --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/chown.texi @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +@node chown +@section @code{chown} +@findex chown + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/chown.html} + +Gnulib module: chown + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +Some platforms fail to detect trailing slash on non-directories, as in +@code{chown("link-to-file/",uid,gid)}: +FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9. +@item +Some platforms fail to update the change time when at least one +argument was not -1, but no ownership changes resulted: +OpenBSD 4.0. +@item +When passed an argument of -1, some implementations really set the owner +user/group id of the file to this value, rather than leaving that id of the +file alone. +@item +When applied to a symbolic link, some implementations don't dereference +the symlink, i.e.@: they behave like @code{lchown}. +@item +This function is missing on some platforms; however, the replacement +always fails with @code{ENOSYS}: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize |