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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/

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