Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 06:08:02 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org, Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.ORG>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fixing chown(8) and friends to handle symlinks properly Message-ID: <20010914060800.A27869@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20010913202742.C2458@sunbay.com> References: <20010913202742.C2458@sunbay.com>
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 20:27:42 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > NOTE: This implementation is still not quite POSIX compliant, as > the latter says to follow a symlink (in the -R case) only if it > points to an object of type directory. Our fts(3) routines are > unable of doing this. Is there a way to fix fts(3) to implement this? I.e. modify fts(3) to make directory test before following anywhere. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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