# ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 luc users 2 Jun 21 00:50 f
lrwxrwxrwx 1 luc users 1 Jun 21 00:50 l -> f
# chown root.root *
# ls -l
total 4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Jun 21 00:50 f
^^^^^^^^
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jun 21 00:50 l -> f
The problem come from the fact that recursive_action() use lstat() but
the chown applet use in its action chown() and not lchown().
I think that either lstat()/lchown() or stat()/chown() must be used but not a mix of the two.
With the following patch chown have the same behaviour as the GNU one and do the same for chmod that suffer from the same problem.
I have not really checked but from the code it seems that chgrp must not be corrected since it use already lchown().
chown-chmod.patch [^] (839 bytes) 06-25-05 17:58 
