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Date:      Fri, 16 May 1997 02:42:29 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970516023613.3775A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
In-Reply-To: <199705151202.UAA19575@spinner.DIALix.COM>

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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
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/




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