On 12/20/2017 10:26 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
$ chown --recursive --dereference root foo
which emits an error:
chown: -R --dereference requires either -H or -L
Hmm, this looks inconsistent as well: --dereference is the
default if neither --dereference nor -h|--no-dereference are
specified, but 'chown -R user dir' does not require -H or
-L.
chown(1) hasn't been changed regarding this behavior since
2006 (coreutils-6.8), so this is obviously a rare edge case.
FWIW, the test-suite for chown lacks exactly that case.
Have a nice day,
Berny
