Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > 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.
Sorry for the missunderstandig. I was refering to the symlink behaviour. This is specific to Free/NetBSD AFAIK. At least there is no lchmod(2) for any other OS I know of. > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
