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Re: Chown problem with arla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
Sat Jan 9 19:36:07 1999
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To: Jim Nance <jim_nance@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Chown problem with arla
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 10 Jan 1999 01:31:12 +0100
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Sorry for not answering this until now, but we've been trying to track
the problem.
> Basically the chown system call is returning 1. According to the
> man page it can only return 0 or -1. The mv command is getting
> confused by this. The mv command is changing the owner/group to the
> value that they already have so I think the call should return 0.
The problem is most probably caused by a file system function
returning a positive errno (negative errno:s are used in the Linux
kernel). I don't see how that can happen, though. I have seen this
problem, but only once on one machine since the last snapshot. Do you
have a test case that will cause this problem?
/Magnus
map@stacken.kth.se
