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Re: new linux chown
- To: Matt McLean <keys@brio.yikes.com>
- Subject: Re: new linux chown
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 08 Jun 1998 23:13:30 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
- References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980608205453.12275A-100000@brio.yikes.com>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Matt McLean <keys@brio.yikes.com> writes:
> looking at uli's sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/chown.c,
>
> it seems to me that it shouldn't be an architecture dependant file.
Some port maintainers decided to not use this ugly hack. And I would
also prefer to not use it since only broken programs fail to continue
to work. For every port beside x86 I'd suggest to make a clean break
immediately.
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