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Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:02:06 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Eric Siegerman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:50:29 -0400
>
> I wonder what POSIX has to say about this?
POSIX says that FreeBSD "mv" conforms, and that Solaris "/bin/mv" and
GNU "mv" do not conform. You can see the sad news in step 5 of:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/mv.html
which says:
If the duplication of the file characteristics fails for any reason,
mv shall write a diagnostic message to standard error, but this
failure shall not cause mv to modify its exit status.
Solaris 9 "/usr/xpg4/bin/mv" does conform (it prints a warning), so
Solaris is off the hook.
Guess I'll need to file a bug report for GNU "mv". Sigh.
- set owner/group on FreeBSD, Bill Moseley, 2002/09/19
- Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD, Paul Eggert, 2002/09/19
- Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD, Eric Siegerman, 2002/09/19
- Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD, Paul Eggert, 2002/09/20
- Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD, Akim Demaille, 2002/09/24
- Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD, Paul Eggert, 2002/09/24
- Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD, Akim Demaille, 2002/09/24
Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD, Akim Demaille, 2002/09/27