Re: update: chown fails to ignore symbolic links during recursive directory traversals

[Andreas Schwab]

Mark Brand <address@hidden> writes:

>>>The problem had nothing to do with '-h'.
>>>    
>>
>>It has.
>>
>>Andreas.
>>
>>  
> The info included with the patch seemed to imply that you would have to
> use the "-h" option to experience the problem, which is not the case.
>
> Perhaps your point is that the problem was caused by something in the
> code related to the "-h" option. Would you care to explain?

The code to handle -h (and its inverse) was incorrectly overriding
recursive operations.

Andreas.

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