Re: endless copy of symlinks and wrong permissions

Thanks Enrico. I'll check this out.

Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Mark Burgess <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> It has been too long to recall what this problem was about. Can you
>> remind me how this started? I am also not quite sure what you are
>> saying works and what doesn't in 2.2.7
> 
> Thread starts at
> 
>     http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.bugs/2203
> 
> It affects 2.2.3 and 2.2.7 (at least). I think, this issue can be fixed
> by
> 
> --- cfengine-2.2.7/src/cfservd.c.~1~    2008-05-08 08:35:29.000000000 +0200
> +++ cfengine-2.2.7/src/cfservd.c        2008-06-29 14:53:59.000000000 +0200
> @@ -2662,6 +2662,7 @@ Debug("Getting size of link deref %s\n",
>  if (islink && (stat(filename,&statlinkbuf) != -1)) /* linktype=copy used by agent */
>     {
>     statbuf.st_size = statlinkbuf.st_size;
> +   statbuf.st_mode = statlinkbuf.st_mode;
>     }
>  
>  if (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))
> 
> 
> 
> Perhaps other attributes (st_uid, st_gid, st_.time) should be copied
> too.
> 
> 
> 
> Enrico

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