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Re: new linux chown


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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