Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:15:05 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: Andrew Cutler <andrew@1stelement.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220141504.GB6893@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <200212201412.GBKECSM91804@asarian-host.net> References: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> <200212201412.GBKECSM91804@asarian-host.net>
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On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Mark wrote: > > I must say, though, that while I understand this behaviour, one can argue on > what exactly "recursive" is to mean here. Intuitively, the definition of > "the current sub-directory and all sub-directories below the current > directory (and that for each subdirectory)" seems the correct one. Which > would exclude "..", as this is not a sub-directory of the current directory, > but the parent. Not really. It recurses through the directories named on the command line, of which '..' happens to be one. Ceri -- By Moradin, I shall avenge the devastation of my beards! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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