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+1998-07-09  Manfred Hollstein  <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
+
+	* chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
+	uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
+
 1998-07-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
 
 	* jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.