# HG changeset patch
# User Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com>
# Date 1421228629 21600
# Node ID 88e6a100490e79ae456a29513aa49cc943c90e25
# Parent  45a612fb0ce6423c75e1e8f521898006f98b7340
i found a few problems while manually smoke testing toybox chown versus toolbox (NetBSD) chown...

new test:

and here's the patch to fix "owner:" ":group" and the ":" special case:

diff -r 45a612fb0ce6 -r 88e6a100490e tests/chown.test
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tests/chown.test	Wed Jan 14 03:43:49 2015 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+[ -f testing.sh ] && . testing.sh
+
+if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]
+then
+  echo "SKIPPED: chown (not root)"
+  continue 2>/dev/null
+  exit
+fi
+
+# We chown between user "root" and the last user in /etc/passwd,
+# and group "root" and the last group in /etc/group.
+
+USR="$(sed -n '$s/:.*//p' /etc/passwd)"
+GRP="$(sed -n '$s/:.*//p' /etc/group)"
+
+# Set up a little testing hierarchy
+
+rm -rf testdir &&
+mkdir testdir &&
+touch testdir/file
+F=testdir/file
+
+# Wrapper to reset groups and return results
+
+OUT="&& echo \$(ls -l testdir/file | awk '{print \$3,\$4}')"
+
+#testing "name" "command" "result" "infile" "stdin"
+
+# Basic smoketest
+testing "chown initial" "chown root:root $F $OUT" "root root\n" "" ""
+testing "chown usr:grp" "chown $USR:$GRP $F $OUT" "$USR $GRP\n" "" ""
+testing "chown root"    "chown root $F $OUT" "root $GRP\n" "" ""
+# TODO: can we test "owner:"?
+testing "chown :grp"    "chown root:root $F && chown :$GRP $F $OUT" \
+    "root $GRP\n" "" ""
+testing "chown :"       "chown $USR:$GRP $F && chown : $F $OUT" \
+    "$USR $GRP\n" "" ""
+
+rm -rf testdir
diff -r 45a612fb0ce6 -r 88e6a100490e toys/posix/chgrp.c
--- a/toys/posix/chgrp.c	Wed Jan 14 00:31:06 2015 -0600
+++ b/toys/posix/chgrp.c	Wed Jan 14 03:43:49 2015 -0600
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@
   int ischown = toys.which->name[2] == 'o', hl = toys.optflags&(FLAG_H|FLAG_L);
   char **s, *own;
 
+  TT.owner = TT.group = -1;
+
   // Distinguish chown from chgrp
   if (ischown) {
     char *grp;
@@ -97,7 +99,7 @@
     }
   } else TT.group_name = *toys.optargs;
 
-  if (TT.group_name) {
+  if (TT.group_name && *TT.group_name) {
     struct group *g;
     g = getgrnam(TT.group_name);
     if (!g) g=getgrgid(atoi(TT.group_name));