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Re: ssh-host-config suggestion (was: Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.5p1-1)

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:20:47PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Why is it preferable to run chown and think it did something, as indicated by
> the success exit status, rather than be told it was not an appropriate call.

It would require to patch a bunch of applications just because the
underlying FS doesn't support chown.  That's not exactly the purpose
of Cygwin which tries to simplify porting apps, not making it harder.

Corinna

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