Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 20:02:27 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: CVS-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mtree mtree.c Message-ID: <199705151202.UAA19575@spinner.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 May 1997 01:46:58 MST." <199705150846.BAA17654@freefall.freebsd.org>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > Modified: usr.sbin/mtree mtree.c > Log: > Change FTS_PHYSICAL (not follow symlinks but return them) > to FTS_LOGICAL (follow symlinks and return their targets) > > Because > 1) In the real system there is a lot of symlinks nowdays over > /var, /spool, etc. Mtree can't do anything for them, i.e. change > permissions/owner. I.e. if you have /var/mail -> /somewhere > it will never be changed to group "mail" 775 like -current does now, > symlink totally confuses mtree. It should really set the owner of the symlinks now that it can be done with lchown(). I have been meaning to teach mtree about symlinks for some time now, but never quite had the nerve.. Cheers, -Peter
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