On Oct 14, 2007, at 10:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, this isn't quite true. osx has no lchmod, but if you set a
umask before creating the link, the permissions are set. So, as
opposed to ignoring the permissions, perhaps we should teach rsync
how to set them. I'll probably look at this as soon as I'm done
writing a patch for preserving the creation date.
I know about the missing lchmod in OS X, but I don't really see a
need for
it. Why can't a symlink just have a default permission of 0777? In
case the
symlink gets dereferenced the target's permissions have to be
considered
anyway. Of course it is cleaner to have them set properly, but if
they are
just ignored it won't hurt either.
I believe in osx the symlink permissions have meaning (as opposed to
linux). Eg:
-rwxrwxrwx bar
----r--r-- foo -> bar
In linux, 'cat foo' will work, in osx, it will fail. So, this meta-
data has meaning, and to just replace it with 0777 will not give you
a functionally equal copy.
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