From a02d66b8fc651979b7f905f78722a6192896eb90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Quentin Rameau <quinq@fifth.space>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:37:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chown: fix user:group option parsing

Check that either user or group is correctly passed, and adapt
documention according to that.
---
 chown.1 | 14 +++++++++++---
 chown.c |  8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/chown.1 b/chown.1
index 4bb3b8b..d2bebca 100644
--- a/chown.1
+++ b/chown.1
@@ -11,15 +11,23 @@
 .Fl R
 .Op Fl H | L | P
 .Oc
-.Op Ar owner Op Ar :group
+.Ar owner Ns Op Pf : Op Ar group
+.Op Ar file ...
+.Nm
+.Op Fl h
+.Oo
+.Fl R
+.Op Fl H | L | P
+.Oc
+.Pf : Ar group
 .Op Ar file ...
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Nm
-sets the user or group id of each
+sets the user and/or group id of each
 .Ar file
 to the uid of
 .Ar owner
-or the gid of
+and/or the gid of
 .Ar group
 respectively.
 .Sh OPTIONS
diff --git a/chown.c b/chown.c
index 1bf9cbb..2009507 100644
--- a/chown.c
+++ b/chown.c
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ chownpwgr(const char *path, struct stat *st, void *data, struct recursor *r)
 static void
 usage(void)
 {
-	eprintf("usage: %s [-h] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [owner][:[group]] "
-	        "file ...\n", argv0);
+	eprintf("usage: %s [-h] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:[group]] file ...\n"
+	        "       %s [-h] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] :group file ...\n",
+	        argv0, argv0);
 }
 
 int
@@ -99,6 +100,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			gid = estrtonum(group, 0, UINT_MAX);
 		}
 	}
+	if (uid == (uid_t)-1 && gid == (gid_t)-1)
+		usage();
+
 	for (argc--, argv++; *argv; argc--, argv++)
 		recurse(*argv, NULL, &r);