From owner-cvs-all Sat Apr 10 17:35:10 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAAE15022; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 17:35:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA03796; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:02:47 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA38159; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:02:45 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990411100244.X2142@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:02:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nik Clayton , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys stat.2 References: <199904102049.NAA60819@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199904102049.NAA60819@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 01:49:29PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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