PERFORCE change 18586 for review

Brian Feldman green at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 3 14:16:08 GMT 2002


http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/p4db/chv.cgi?CH=18586

Change 18586 by green at green_laptop_2 on 2002/10/03 07:15:58

	Don't uselessly follow symlinks in the extattr utilities.

Affected files ...

.. //depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/usr.sbin/extattr/rmextattr.8#2 edit
.. //depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/usr.sbin/extattr/rmextattr.c#3 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/usr.sbin/extattr/rmextattr.8#2 (text+ko) ====

@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@
 the name of the target file or directory,
 .Ar attrvalue
 a string to store in the attribute.
+Since it is not useful to operate on the target of a symbolic link, the given
+.Ar filename
+is not followed if it is one.
 .Pp
 The following options are available:
 .Bl -tag -width flag

==== //depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/usr.sbin/extattr/rmextattr.c#3 (text+ko) ====

@@ -178,25 +178,25 @@
 	for (arg_counter = 0; arg_counter < argc; arg_counter++) {
 		switch (what) {
 		case EARM:
-			error = extattr_delete_file(argv[arg_counter],
+			error = extattr_delete_link(argv[arg_counter],
 			    attrnamespace, attrname);
 			if (error >= 0)
 				continue;
 			break;
 		case EASET:
-			error = extattr_set_file(argv[arg_counter],
+			error = extattr_set_link(argv[arg_counter],
 			    attrnamespace, attrname, buf, strlen(buf));
 			if (error >= 0)
 				continue;
 			break;
 		case EALS:
 		case EAGET:
-			error = extattr_get_file(argv[arg_counter],
+			error = extattr_get_link(argv[arg_counter],
 			    attrnamespace, attrname, NULL, 0);
 			if (error < 0)
 				break;
 			mkbuf(&buf, &buflen, error);
-			error = extattr_get_file(argv[arg_counter],
+			error = extattr_get_link(argv[arg_counter],
 			    attrnamespace, attrname, buf, buflen);
 			if (error < 0)
 				break;
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