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Re: fakeroot status


From: Marcus Brinkmann
Subject: Re: fakeroot status
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:56:47 +0200
User-agent: 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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