fileutils chown --from bug

[Chris Yeoh]

Hi,

There appears to be a problem with the chown command such that the
--from option doesn't work. The argument passed to --from is never
used. The following patch fixes the bug:

--- fileutils-4.1/src/chown.c.orig      Tue May  8 10:50:55 2001
+++ fileutils-4.1/src/chown.c   Tue May  8 11:43:45 2001
@@ -173,11 +173,11 @@
        case FROM_OPTION:
          {
            char *u_dummy, *g_dummy;
-           const char *e = parse_user_spec (argv[optind],
+           const char *e = parse_user_spec (optarg,
                                             &old_uid, &old_gid,
                                             &u_dummy, &g_dummy);
            if (e)
-             error (1, 0, "%s: %s", quote (argv[optind]), e);
+             error (1, 0, "%s: %s", quote (optarg), e);
            break;
          }
        case 'R':

Regards,

Chris.
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