Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:02:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys stat.2 Message-ID: <19990411100244.X2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199904102049.NAA60819@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 01:49:29PM -0700 References: <199904102049.NAA60819@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Saturday, 10 April 1999 at 13:49:29 -0700, Nik Clayton wrote: > nik 1999/04/10 13:49:28 PDT > > Modified files: > lib/libc/sys stat.2 > Log: > Contains the para > > Unlike other filesystem objects, symbolic links do not have an owner, > group, access mode, times, etc. Instead, these attributes are taken from > the directory that contains the link. The only attributes returned from > an lstat() that refer to the symbolic link itself are the file type > (S_IFLNK), size, blocks, and link count (always 1). > > This is bogus, and disagrees with the implementation and symlink(7). > > Removed it. Wouldn't it have been easier to tell it the way it is? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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