From 094376a8ad23c218defcc69d601be0b014965243 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 02:37:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] require and use chown with follow_symlinks=False

should be equivalent to using os.lchown() before.
---
 src/borg/archive.py | 2 +-
 src/borg/helpers.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/borg/archive.py b/src/borg/archive.py
index 96a9070c7..9954eb70e 100644
--- a/src/borg/archive.py
+++ b/src/borg/archive.py
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ Utilization of max. archive size: {csize_max:.0%}
             if fd:
                 os.fchown(fd, uid, gid)
             else:
-                os.lchown(path, uid, gid)
+                os.chown(path, uid, gid, follow_symlinks=False)
         except OSError:
             pass
         if fd:
diff --git a/src/borg/helpers.py b/src/borg/helpers.py
index cd481dc0e..b4090da9a 100644
--- a/src/borg/helpers.py
+++ b/src/borg/helpers.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ class PythonLibcTooOld(Error):
 
 
 def check_python():
-    required_funcs = {os.stat, os.utime}
+    required_funcs = {os.stat, os.utime, os.chown}
     if not os.supports_follow_symlinks.issuperset(required_funcs):
         raise PythonLibcTooOld