On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Concerning all these differences on FreeBSD: if the changes needed to make > things work correctly on FreeBSD are extensive and require a bit of > #ifdefing, we are going to have to re-think how we do it. The code is ...
I just want to point out that this problem is not specific to FreeBSD. I am sure it will happen on many other (even non-BSD) operating systems too ... but it just hasn't been reported yet. Linux with standard ext2fs file system has the same behaviour: you can not create a link (hardlink) to target file that has the immutable file attribute. (This is easy to try.) I am not familiar with this in Bacula though ... from a quick search through bacula/src I don't see any ioctl for setting ext2fs flags. If I am overlooking this, please point me to it. I am curious about this since file system flags are handled for BSD systems, so why not others too? (If it does, please point me to it.) The standard e2fsprogs suite provides source code for this. See lib/e2p/fsetflags.c and lib/e2p/fgetflags.c. This e2fsprogs code supports both Linux ext2fs and BSD (chflags and stat). I assume xfsprogs and progreiserfs have similar functionality and routines. So what I am getting at ... instead of just ifdef'ing for HAVE_CHFLAGS, maybe it should have a common routines like fsetflags() and fgetflags() that can be adjusted for all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
