Remove suppport for not having lchown#15250
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Ericson2314 merged 1 commit intoNixOS:masterfrom Feb 16, 2026
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Linux, macOS, and all 3 BSDs have it (according to man page google search), so let's just drop this. Support for not having it was added in d03f0d4 in 2006, things have changed in the last 20 years!
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Linux, macOS, and all 3 BSDs have it (according to man page google search), so let's just drop this.
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Support for not having it was added in d03f0d4 in 2006, things have changed in the last 20 years!
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