bug#79130: Change/feature requests chcon/chgrp/chmod/chown/touch

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2025-07-30 01:05, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> I would like the 'chown -h' and 'chcon -h' to work the same way as
> 'touch -h': as well as not following symlinks for targets, they should also
> not follow a symlink given as --reference=.

Makes sense to me. Let's see what others think.

If the patch is nontrivial would you be OK with assigning copyright as 
per the usual GNU style? If so, I can send you the form for the paperwork.
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