From owner-cvs-sys Mon Mar 31 04:11:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA13407 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 04:11:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA13310; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 04:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id EAA09074; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 04:12:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703311212.EAA09074@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Peter Wemm cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_lookup.c ufs_vnops.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 1997 04:03:06 PST." <199703311203.EAA12794@freefall.freebsd.org> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 04:12:18 -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >peter 97/03/31 04:03:04 > > Modified: sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c > sys/ufs/ufs ufs_lookup.c ufs_vnops.c > Log: > Treat symlinks as first class citizens with their own uid/gid rather than > as shadows of their containing directory. This should solve the problem > of users not being able to delete their symlinks from /tmp once and for > all. > > Symlinks do not have modes though, they are accessable to everything that > can read the directory (as before). They are made to show this fact at > lstat time (they appear as mode 0777 always, since that's how the the > lookup routines in the kernel treat them). > > More commits will follow, eg: add a real lchown() syscall and man pages. Thanks!!! I've been complaining about this ever since 4.4-lite... -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project