This patch from Lars Kellogg-Stedman, fixes the behavior of

chown to be consistant with GNU chown, so that it follows
symlinks (who cares about the perms on a link anyways?) unless
the -h option is supplied.
 -Erik

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/chown.c b/chown.c
index 011403378..a65607204 100644
--- a/chown.c
+++ b/chown.c
@@ -36,9 +36,11 @@
 static long uid;
 static long gid;
 
+static int (*chown_func)() = chown;
+
 static int fileAction(const char *fileName, struct stat *statbuf, void* junk)
 {
-        if (lchown(fileName, uid, (gid == -1) ? statbuf->st_gid : gid) == 0) {
+        if (chown_func(fileName, uid, (gid == -1) ? statbuf->st_gid : gid) == 0) {
                 return (TRUE);
         }
         perror(fileName);
@@ -48,21 +50,27 @@ static int fileAction(const char *fileName, struct stat *statbuf, void* junk)
 int chown_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
         int opt;
-        int recursiveFlag = FALSE;
+        int recursiveFlag = FALSE,
+                noderefFlag = FALSE;
         char *groupName=NULL;
         char *p=NULL;
 
         /* do normal option parsing */
-        while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "R")) > 0) {
+        while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "Rh")) > 0) {
                 switch (opt) {
                         case 'R':
                                 recursiveFlag = TRUE;
                                 break;
+                        case 'h':
+                                noderefFlag = TRUE;
+                                break;
                         default:
                                 show_usage();
                 }
         }
 
+        if (noderefFlag) chown_func = lchown;
+
         if (argc > optind && argc > 2 && argv[optind]) {
                 /* First, check if there is a group name here */
                 groupName = strchr(argv[optind], '.');
diff --git a/coreutils/chown.c b/coreutils/chown.c
index 011403378..a65607204 100644
--- a/coreutils/chown.c
+++ b/coreutils/chown.c
@@ -36,9 +36,11 @@
 static long uid;
 static long gid;
 
+static int (*chown_func)() = chown;
+
 static int fileAction(const char *fileName, struct stat *statbuf, void* junk)
 {
-        if (lchown(fileName, uid, (gid == -1) ? statbuf->st_gid : gid) == 0) {
+        if (chown_func(fileName, uid, (gid == -1) ? statbuf->st_gid : gid) == 0) {
                 return (TRUE);
         }
         perror(fileName);
@@ -48,21 +50,27 @@ static int fileAction(const char *fileName, struct stat *statbuf, void* junk)
 int chown_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
         int opt;
-        int recursiveFlag = FALSE;
+        int recursiveFlag = FALSE,
+                noderefFlag = FALSE;
         char *groupName=NULL;
         char *p=NULL;
 
         /* do normal option parsing */
-        while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "R")) > 0) {
+        while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "Rh")) > 0) {
                 switch (opt) {
                         case 'R':
                                 recursiveFlag = TRUE;
                                 break;
+                        case 'h':
+                                noderefFlag = TRUE;
+                                break;
                         default:
                                 show_usage();
                 }
         }
 
+        if (noderefFlag) chown_func = lchown;
+
         if (argc > optind && argc > 2 && argv[optind]) {
                 /* First, check if there is a group name here */
                 groupName = strchr(argv[optind], '.');