[Buildroot] [PATCH] fs: also chown symlinks

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu May 1 21:28:22 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

 > From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
 > By default, chown does not change the ownership of symlinks.

 > In some cases, this can be seen by some as a leak from the building
 > environment into the generated filesystem (a small leak, but a leak
 > nonetheless.)

 > Change the way we call chown to tell it to not dereference symlinks.

 > [Thanks to Thomas for pointing out the -h option to chown.]

As discussed on IRC, chown actually does the right thing when called
with the -R option, so this patch doesn't make sense.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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