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

[Mark Brand]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Mark Brand <address@hidden> writes:
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> > In case anybody was following this issuse (original subject line "chown
> > fails to ignore symbolic links during recursive directory
> > transversals[sic]"), SuSE has released a fix for their coreutils RPM:
> >    
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> Has this problem (whatever it is) been fixed in coreutils CVS?
> If not, can you please send a copy of the patch to address@hidden
> Thanks.
>  
As far as I know, the problem was unique to the SusSE RPM. Andreas Swab 
from SuSE (a few posts ago) might be able to shed some light on this. I 
was only the reporter.

Mark