bin/144411: [patch] mtree(8) doesn't reject non-regular files
for -X
Bruce Evans
brde at optusnet.com.au
Tue Mar 30 19:12:32 UTC 2010
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm not 100% satisfied with this patch now. Looking back it fails
>> the following case:
>>
>> -P Do not follow symbolic links in the file hierarchy, instead con-
>> sider the symbolic link itself in any comparisons. This is the
>> default.
>
> -P should have the same semantics and description in all utilities. The
> description should not have grammar errors like the above (comma splice).
> ...
> I now see that the grammar error is from the original version of mtree(1),
> and is probably one of the things you don't like. mtree also has -L, but
> not -R or -P or -h. It is not clear how any utility that traverses trees
> can work without a full complement of -[HLPR] or how any utility that
> ...
Looking at the actual patch, I now see that it is about a completely
different problem. You would only need to understand the amount of
brokenness of -P to see if you need to use lstat(). I think -P is so
broken that mtree on symlinks doesn't work at all and not using lstat()
would be safest.
The patch has some style bugs.
Bruce
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