SemiOT: filePro on FreeBSD chown gotcha

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> > 
> > Hate to tell you, but Solaris 7 and 8 both constrain chown() as well.
> 
> Did you have the impression I'd be surprised?  Polaris is BSD-based.

Bzzzzt.  SVR4-based.  SunOS 4.1.x was the last truly BSD-based Sun offering.

> They stole it from BSD.  Nice to know Polaris has a knob, at least.

SVR4 contains more than a modest amount of BSD code.  Solaris happens to be
SVR4.  SVR3 contains none.  But SVR4 is still SysV.  It's just enhanced.

> That's the ugliest, least useful manpage I've *ever* seen.

You haven't been reading enough man pages.  :)

> > This implies to me that it's configurable if you compile it non-BSD-style.
> 
> Compile *what*?  libc6?
> 
> Ick.

Unless you know of another location for the chown() system call, yes.  :)

> If it ain't a runtime knob, it doesn't help me much...

Depends.  Rip apart the SRPM, tweak it in the .spec, and save your .spec
file.  Then any time you need to upgrade, just do it from SRPM with the
modified .spec that you made.

Takes longer to install, but it seems like they indicate it's possible.

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