From owner-cvs-usrsbin Thu May 15 15:44:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22228 for cvs-usrsbin-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.124.23.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22222; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA03839; Fri, 16 May 1997 02:42:30 +0400 (MSD) Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 02:42:29 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: Peter Wemm cc: CVS-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mtree mtree.c In-Reply-To: <199705151202.UAA19575@spinner.DIALix.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 May 1997, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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.. In this case it still stays broken for variant I fix. The problem is that it expects symlink or expects directory/file and they are different cases for mtree, but in real life they are the same thing, so in practice symlink should always be treated as object where it points (for mtree). -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/