Please note: this is essentially a repeat of an item I submitted almost a year ago when it received basically no notice. With the recent flurry of activity, I'm hoping it might be considered for inclusion in an upcoming release.
The included patch provides a compile-time option to use the POSIX
fchmodat() function to set permissions for a symbolic link (the link
itself, not its target). It only gets compiled in, as part of do_chmod()
in syscall.c, if setattrlist() does not exist and as a last resort before
failure would result for symbolic links.
It's not OS-specific, although I'll admit that OpenBSD is the only
system I've encountered to date that needs it. (On OpenBSD, this is the
ONLY item that prevents me from being able to make a perfect clone.)
It's small: 1 line change in configure.ac and 2 lines added in syscall.c.
It is intended for the rsync version just released ("3.5.x started").
I've been using it for more than a year and a half without issue. I've
also tried compilations with the patched code on a variety of other
systems (various Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD) where it (naturally) had no
effect since the new code was not compiled in.
Thanks so much for your attention. I look forward to hearing back (one
way or other other).
And thanks for all the great work on what is one of the truly great
utility tools in existence.
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Antoine Verheijen Email: [email protected]
. Phone: (780) 462-9696
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