Re: [rdiff-backup-users] No lchown on 10.3 for rdiff-backup 1.0.0

[Scott Lamb]

On 3 Sep 2005, at 18:09, Ben Escoto wrote:

> So how popular is 10.3 and how long will people keep using it?  Is it
> worth writing a test to handle this case?  Or can we just call this a
> bug in the OS?

10.4 shipped recently (April 29th). 10.3's still in widespread use, I  
believe. I don't know how long that will be true.

According to this page <http://www.honkbude.org/article.php? 
story=20040801233916583&mode=print>, there's just no good way to do  
this.

According to <http://www.wodeveloper.com/omniLists/macosx-dev/2001/ 
February/msg00570.html>, symlinks just use their parent directory's  
permissions on OS X. But that doesn't seem accurate:

address@hidden /tmp]$ mkdir foo
address@hidden /tmp]$ cd foo
address@hidden /tmp/foo]$ ln -s baz bar
address@hidden /tmp/foo]$ ls -laF
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    3 slamb  wheel  102 Sep  3 23:01 ./
drwxrwxrwt   16 root   wheel  544 Sep  3 23:01 ../
lrwxr-xr-x    1 slamb  wheel    3 Sep  3 23:01 bar@ -> baz
address@hidden /tmp/foo]$ chmod 700 .
address@hidden /tmp/foo]$ ls -laF
total 8
drwx------    3 slamb  wheel  102 Sep  3 23:01 ./
drwxrwxrwt   16 root   wheel  544 Sep  3 23:01 ../
lrwxr-xr-x    1 slamb  wheel    3 Sep  3 23:01 bar@ -> baz

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