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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2007-06-18 11:58:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-06-18 15:20:44 +0200 |
| commit | 811901cb41421e315c4b2e04989fb380ec20cb33 (patch) | |
| tree | e82183001e237bd1316f5dce4577542dbbc5977d /NEWS | |
| parent | 0adc02a086c8a40bad3191d14b8612aae5ee9995 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-811901cb41421e315c4b2e04989fb380ec20cb33.tar.xz | |
A few more symlink-related fixes. Fix a bug triggered by cp
--parents and symlinks. Close some race conditions possible when
the destination replaces a newly-created file with a symlink.
* NEWS: Document that 'cp --parents' no longer mishandles
symlinks in file name components of source.
* src/copy.c (HAVE_LCHOWN): Default to false.
(lchown) [!defined HAVE_LCHOWN]: Define to chown, for convenience.
* src/cp.c (lchown) [!HAVE_LCHOWN]: Likewise.
* src/install.c (lchown [!HAVE_LCHOWN]: Likewise.
* src/copy.c (set_owner): Use lchown instead of chown, for safety
in case the file got replaced by a symlink in the meantime.
* src/cp.c (re_protect): Likewise.
* src/install.c (change_attributes): Likewise.
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use ordinary C rather than an #if.
* src/cp.c (lchown) [!HAVE_LCHOWN]: Define to chown, for convenience.
(struct dir_attr): Cache the entire struct stat of the directory,
rather than just its mode, so that we needn't stat the directory
twice (which can lead to races).
(re_protect): Don't use XSTAT as that's not appropriate in
this context (symlinks should be followed here). Instead, use
the cached stat value.
(make_dir_parents_private): Save dir's entire struct stat, not
just its mode.
* tests/cp/cp-parents: Add test to check against bug with
cp --parents and symlinks.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes cp no longer fails to write through a dangling symlink - [bug introduced in coreutils-6.7]. Also, 'cp' no longer considers a + [bug introduced in coreutils-6.7]. cp --parents no + longer mishandles symlinks to directories in file name + components in the source, e.g., "cp --parents symlink/a/b + d" no longer fails. Also, 'cp' no longer considers a destination symlink to be the same as the referenced file when copying links or making backups. For example, if SYM is a symlink to FILE, "cp -l FILE SYM" now reports an error instead of silently |