Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Preserve symlink permissions

[Iain Dooley]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Andrew Ferguson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some Unix systems (at least the *BSDs and Mac OS X) set the permission
> bits on symbolic links to "777 - umask" at link creation. This is
> different from Linux, where all symbolic links are mode 777.
>
> This patch changes rdiff-backup's umask temporarily when it creates
> symbolic links so that their exact permissions are maintained during
> backup and restore. The patch is against the current CVS repository, but
> should also work for 1.1.x and 1.0.x versions.
>
> Although the permission bits seem to have no effect, I created this
> patch so that rdiff-backup comes even closer to making a perfect backup
> on BSD-like systems. It has been tested on Linux, Mac OS X, and during
> network backup and restore.

that's great! as a FreeBSD user i greatly appreciate anything directed 
towards improving BSD performance :)

cheers

iain

> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
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