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  1. Bug #1581310
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1581310

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Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) wrote : Re: ubuntu-core doesn't allow sed -i (fchown syscall)

Interestingly, sed is happy to ignore failures on fchown itself:

$ grep chown sed/execute.c -B4 -A2
      output_fd = fileno (output_file.fp);
#ifdef HAVE_FCHOWN
      /* Try to set both UID and GID, but if that fails,
         try to set only the GID. Ignore failure. */
      if (fchown (output_fd, input->st.st_uid, input->st.st_gid) == -1)
        ignore_value (fchown (output_fd, -1, input->st.st_gid));
#endif
      copy_acl (input->in_file_name, input_fd,