Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:59:36 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Rohit Jalan <rohitj@purpe.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kern_symlink(...) is not setting vattr.va_type Message-ID: <20060227135936.GA39098@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20060227105753.GA6726@desk01.n2.purpe.com> References: <20060227105753.GA6726@desk01.n2.purpe.com>
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:27:53PM +0530, Rohit Jalan wrote: > I've reproduced the following from vfs_syscalls.c,v 1.399. > Vattr.va_type is set only if MAC is defined, should not it > be set always? Or is setting the same a responsibility of > VOP_SYMLINK()? I think VOP_SYMLINK does the work for us. If you check back through the file's history, this line was added in revision 1.295 when the MAC framework was introduced. David.
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