From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 12:41:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef555f7776b2fc4cd23e8826f436a033@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM8pOuPiu5nG9dX7ij6kDJpBGmqBCvX2PRT5yiu9iAoEWzUXww@mail.gmail.c>
On Sun May 20 10:44:12 EDT 2012, burton.samograd@gmail.com wrote:
> I had hg complaining about the owner of the system wide hgrc on 9front so
> I did what I thought was most obvious and tried a chown of the file. No chown.
> So I did a google and found that plan9 doesn't have chown or anything like chown
> because that concept doesn't exist on plan9. This seems a bit funny
> since an ls -l
> shows me file owners and groups. I got around not having chown by copying the
> file and then moving it over the original file.
>
> Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on plan9 and what
> is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups of files? Thanks.
>
iirc, add this to your system-wide hgrc and it'll shut up.
[ui]
reportoldssl = False
report_untrusted = False
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2012-05-20 16:41 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-05-20 14:43 Burton Samograd
2012-05-20 14:54 ` Connor Lane Smith
2012-05-20 17:44 ` David du Colombier
2012-05-20 18:07 ` Anthony Sorace
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