From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 6:15: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC01E37B405 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:15:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust47.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D198B43ED8 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:15:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18PNvd-0001pR-00; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:15:05 +0000 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:15:05 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Mark Cc: Andrew Cutler , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220141504.GB6893@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Mark , Andrew Cutler , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> <200212201412.GBKECSM91804@asarian-host.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212201412.GBKECSM91804@asarian-host.net> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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