GNU bug report logs - #44770
chown: warn when encountering deprecated dot separator

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: 44770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44770: chown: warn about the dot when encountering it
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 05:17:49 +0800

Maybe print warning messages when encountering the dot,
(info "(coreutils) chown invocation")
Else Grandpa won't ever know,
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/468
until one day when it's too late...
(And his program starts messing things up on some other system.)
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 82 days ago.

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