2.2.10 chown s-bit change?

Kevin Ivory (Ivory@SerNet.de)
Thu, 01 Jul 1999 11:44:51 +0200

In Linux versions up to 2.2.7, changing the owner of a file with
the s-bit set would turn off the s-bit.
With 2.2.10 this behavior is missing:

root@ivory1:~#uname -a
Linux ivory1 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 10:50:41 MEST 1999 i586 unknown
root@ivory1:~#/bin/ls -al /usr/bin/passwd
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root shadow 32916 May 1 02:23 /usr/bin/passwd
root@ivory1:~#chown nobody.nogroup /usr/bin/passwd
root@ivory1:~#/bin/ls -al /usr/bin/passwd
-rwsr-xr-x 1 nobody nogroup 32916 May 1 02:23 /usr/bin/passwd
root@ivory1:~#chown root.shadow /usr/bin/passwd
root@ivory1:~#/bin/ls -al /usr/bin/passwd
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root shadow 32916 May 1 02:23 /usr/bin/passwd

Is this intended?
Kevin

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