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Subject: Re: flags on symlinks
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From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: 22 Jul 2001 23:34:06 +0200
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:
> Flags are associated with inodes, and symlinks do not have
> inodes in the common case, as they exist solely in the
> directory entry, unless they are too long.

Hu?  The contents of the link will be stored in the inode itself
rather than in data blocks if it's short enough.

> Pretty clearly, there should _NOT_ be a seperate system call;
> the damn thing should just work.  Adding a seperate system call
> means theaching everything that deals with flags about it (ls,
> chflags,

Of course chflags has to know about it to call chflags or lchflags.
But ls should just behave as usual with `-l':

datan# ls -lo
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  nodump 0 Jul 22 23:31 bar
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  schg   3 Jul 22 23:31 foo -> bar
datan# ls -loL
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  nodump 0 Jul 22 23:31 bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  nodump 0 Jul 22 23:31 foo

> every FS supporing symlinks, etc.).

Why?

/assar

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