Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 04:26:19 +0100 (BST) From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: flags on symlinks Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107230418500.4671-100000@elm.phenome.org> In-Reply-To: <200107230016.UAA17001@renown.cnchost.com>
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Bakul Shah wrote:
> Well, I won't mind if {,l}ch{mod,own,flags} etc become library
> routines. Something like:
I'm not going to take that path, but if you wanted to change the syscall
interface, a more radical solution would be creation of a (get|set)attrs
call to replace the current [fl]?(chown|chmod|chflags|utimes|stat) set
and create libc wrappers.
However I am going down the road of a lchflags which is consistent with
existing l(chown|chmod|utimes) and also consistent with the NetBSD
implementation.
I doubt many systems programmers would thank me for radically changing
semantics along the way.
Regards
Joshua
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