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Re: ssh-host-config suggestion (was: Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.5p1-1)


On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:52:00PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:10:26PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >   The chown(2) syscall
> > returns intentionally always 0 if any of these conditions isn't met.
> 
> That behavior seems rather "non-unix-like".  If chown(2) fails to work
> shouldn't return an error status, and possibly set ERRNO.  Then chown(1)
> could report a reasonable error message and exit status.

On FAT?  Chown obviously can't succeed on FAT.  So all 9x users will be
out of luck?

Corinna

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