From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 12:41:19 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing Topicbox-Message-UUID: 93d9a864-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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