l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Jelle Licht <jli...@fsfe.org> skribis:
[...] >> Also, seeing as my experience with the stat utility and similarly styled >> programming libraries was lacking, I decided to play around with the >> definition of `list-of-files': It actually does include symlinks, as >> (stat:type (stat "some-symlinked-file")) gives us a plain old 'regular. >> Looking into this a bit more, it seems that calling `stat' gives the >> exact same results on both the linked-to-file and the symlink to that >> file. >> >> For the particular problem I ran into to be fixed, it is imperative that >> `list-of-files' of `patch-shebangs' includes the symlink; it does after >> all need to be patched. The way this patching currently happens just >> clobbers symlinks. > > My bad, indeed, ‘list-of-files’ should use ‘lstat’ instead of ‘stat’. This was fixed some time ago in core-updates by commit c13a9feb5b64fd819eaed38a17da0284bbe2b8d9; closing this bug! Ludo’.
