cannot chown a broken link via properties dialog

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#16 cannot chown a broken link via properties dialog

Milestone: 4.6.2

Status: closed-wont-fix

Owner: Edscott Wilson Garcia

Labels: rodent (23)

Priority: 4

Updated: 2011-09-17

Created: 2011-04-13

Creator: Napuseno Smith

Private: No

If a broken link exists and it is owned by someone else, you cannot chown it to yourself as with any other file via the properties dialog.Thus, you cannot delete it since it is not yours.

Discussion

Napuseno Smith - 2011-04-13

Actually this is the default behaviour for chown, unless -h or --no-dereference is specified.
Thus, the properties dialog is missing a checkbox (for symlinks) to specify the no.dereference
option.

Rather than a bug, a missing feature...

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Edscott Wilson Garcia - 2011-05-02

This is a feature request and will be posponed for next mayor version (gamma)

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Edscott Wilson Garcia - 2011-05-02

priority: 5 --> 3

status: open --> open-postponed
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Edscott Wilson Garcia - 2011-05-19

priority: 3 --> 5
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Edscott Wilson Garcia - 2011-05-20

status: open-postponed --> pending-postponed
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Edscott Wilson Garcia - 2011-05-20

This would rather be a feature request, not really a bug.

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Edscott Wilson Garcia - 2011-05-20

priority: 5 --> 4
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SourceForge Robot - 2011-06-03

This Tracker item was closed automatically by the system. It was
previously set to a Pending status, and the original submitter
did not respond within 14 days (the time period specified by
the administrator of this Tracker).

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SourceForge Robot - 2011-06-03

status: pending-postponed --> closed-postponed
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Edscott Wilson Garcia - 2011-09-17

This is default behavior for GNU core utils, so it is not reasonable to work against the current, specially since we are a front end to several core utils... Chmod is one of them, although the frontendeness is not as clear as with other apps.

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Edscott Wilson Garcia - 2011-09-17

status: closed-postponed --> closed-wont-fix
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