From 7cee87317b2265e9785a4842b2fdd735ce9be8b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:09:44 -0500
Subject: Add support for -R (recurse) to init chown builtin.

This is helpful for setting ownerships on entire directory trees,
such as sysfs and selinuxfs, particularly when the precise set of
files is dynamically generated at runtime.

Change-Id: I81070ea36fd7ffcab4ee8b3ef1bb0028d4b7839c
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
---
 init/readme.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'init/readme.txt')

diff --git a/init/readme.txt b/init/readme.txt
index fe0d15d0..f674db84 100644
--- a/init/readme.txt
+++ b/init/readme.txt
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ chdir <directory>
 chmod <octal-mode> <path>
    Change file access permissions.
 
-chown <owner> <group> <path>
-   Change file owner and group.
+chown [-R] <owner> <group> <path>
+   Change file owner and group. "-R" is for recursive chown.
 
 chroot <directory>
   Change process root directory.
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