Bug 17232

Summary:

chown(1) and chgrp(1) do not honor -v flag per documentation - patch included

Product:

Base System

Reporter:

rmukerji <rmukerji>

Component:

misc

Assignee:

David E. O'Brien <obrien>

Status:

Closed FIXED

Severity:

Affects Only Me

Priority:

Normal

Version:

4.0-CURRENT

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

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Description rmukerji 2000-03-06 21:20:01 UTC

From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Mar  6 13:36:20 2000
From: Dave Boers <djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl>                                       
Reply-To: djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl                                                
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org                                                            
Cc: dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl                                                    
Subject: Small bug in chown and chgrp ?                                                    
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:36:08 +0100                                                       
Message-ID: <20000306203608.B26973@relativity.student.utwente.nl>
X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i                                                                      

Hi all,

I've been bitten by the following:

44 relativity ~ % chown -v djb:wheel test
chown: illegal option -- v                                                                 
usage: chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] owner[:group] file ...                     
       chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] :group file ...
       chgrp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] group file ...

Where "test" is an ordinary directory.

It seems that chown's behavior is inconsistent with both the usage message
and the man page. The same goes for chgrp.

Regards,

Dave Boers.     

--                                                                                         
  Dave Boers             < djb @ relativity . student . utwente . nl >                     
  Don't let your schooling interfere with your education. (Mark Twain)

Fix: % cvs diff -u chown.c 
How-To-Repeat: # chown -v arm foo
chown: illegal option -- v
usage: chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] owner[:group] file ...
       chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] :group file ...
       chgrp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] group file ...

Comment 1 cpiazza freebsd_committer

2000-03-06 22:18:41 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->obrien

obrien added -v to these programs.

Comment 2 David E. O'Brien freebsd_committer

2000-11-10 18:36:26 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fixed a while ago.  Thanks for the report!