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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 41570@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, blicher@comcast.net
Subject: bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 23:17:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kEOhy-0000GE-9g@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnnJz_Y3K-1shyGKPs=iLpQKD2iixtt8mmVvi=Qm04uSg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 4 Sep 2020 11:35:04 +0000)

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Perhaps the Dired O command should give an immediate error, perhaps

  Changing a file's owner not supported on this OS.  Switch to GNU/Linux.

This would at least explain the situation.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-05  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-27 21:46 bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown A. Peter Blicher
2020-05-28  6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-28 15:54   ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-05-28 16:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-28 16:26       ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-09-03 20:38   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-03 21:36     ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-09-03 21:38       ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-09-03 22:06       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-04  6:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-04 11:35       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-05  3:17         ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-09-05  6:32           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06  3:54             ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-06 14:19               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 17:30                 ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-09-08  2:54                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-08 16:43                     ` A. Peter Blicher

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