Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:40:13 GMT From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/145230: mtree(8) -P is broken because l* functions aren't being used Message-ID: <201004020740.o327eDlE001423@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/145230; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/145230: mtree(8) -P is broken because l* functions aren't being used Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:33:43 +1100 (EST) On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Description: > As discovered when reviewing mtree(8) as part of bin/144411, there are a number of items with -P that doesn't work... all chown, chmod, and stat calls for instance are the non-l variety, which means that unfortunately the file information for symlinks isn't being properly recorded. Please use line lengths considerably shorter than 282 characters. This (not the formatting) seems to be fixed in NetBSD. Its mtree has many lchown()s, chmod()s and lchflag()s though no lstat()s or lutime()s. Bruce
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