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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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