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Re: fakeroot status
From: |
Marcus Brinkmann |
Subject: |
Re: fakeroot status |
Date: |
Tue, 14 May 2002 15:56:47 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:54:54PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
>
> > There is another problem with fakeroot, and that is chmod. It doesn't work
> > at all :) I always get EOPNOTSUPP. Your comment:
> >
> > Unlike the normal Unix
> > and Hurd meaning of chmod, this function is also used to attempt to
> > change files into other types. If such a transition is attempted which
> > is impossible, then return EOPNOTSUPP. */
>
> Um, I don't think this is supposed to happen!
>
> file_chmod is *not* supposed to affect the IFMT bits; where is this
> comment found?
Well, we are not really talking about file_chmod, but about
netfs_attempt_chmod. However, I have not found it to be used by anything
but netfs_S_file_chmod.
The original comment is in libnetfs/netfs.h
Thanks,
Marcus
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- Re: fakeroot status, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/14
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- Re: fakeroot status, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/15
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