chown: work around OpenBSD bug

[gnulib.git] / doc / posix-functions / lchown.texi

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/lchown.texi b/doc/posix-functions/lchown.texi
index 0686bf3..595a05c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/lchown.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/lchown.texi
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ Some platforms fail to detect trailing slash on non-directories, as in
 @code{lchown("link-to-file/",uid,gid)}:
 FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9.
 @item
+Some platforms fail to update the change time when at least one
+argument was not -1, but no ownership changes resulted.  However,
+without @code{lchmod}, the replacement only fixes this for non-symlinks:
+OpenBSD 4.0.
+@item
 This function is missing on some platforms; however, the replacement
 fails on symlinks if @code{chown} is supported, and fails altogether
 with @code{ENOSYS} otherwise: