From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 22 20:26:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elm.phenome.org (elm.phenome.org [194.153.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C77037B401; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshua@roughtrade.net) Received: from localhost (joshua@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian 8.12.0.Beta7-1) with ESMTP id f6N3QKCC005292; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 04:26:20 +0100 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 04:26:19 +0100 (BST) From: Joshua Goodall X-X-Sender: To: Bakul Shah Cc: , Bruce Evans , , Subject: Re: flags on symlinks In-Reply-To: <200107230016.UAA17001@renown.cnchost.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message