Hi,
On 12/05/12 12:23, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> This may not be entirely trivial to solve. find | xargs constructs at best
> mitigate this to a race. While chown does have a --no-derefence flag, this
> does not protect us in the case of hardlinks. chmod has no such flag, and
> it'd
> useful only for symlinks anyway. Neither tool has a
> --only-if-link-count-is-one
> flag.
>From find(1):
-links n
File has n links.
So I guess this specific problem could theoretically be solved this way.
However, I'm actually also for a more general solution, as being
discussed for dpkg or at least debhelper.
Cheers
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Leo "costela" Antunes
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