On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:42:26PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> It's not because of the flags on the durectory, it' because of the
> flags on the original file:
> pop# ls -ldo
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Oct 11 18:36 .
> pop# ls -lo tar pax
> ls: pax: No such file or directory
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  schg 138497 Sep 18 22:16 tar
> pop# ln tar pax
> ln: pax: Operation not permitted
> 
> restore will delay restoring modes/flags for directories, but not for regular
> files. We should probably keep in memory the flags on files as well, 
> and restore them after the createlinks() step.
> I didn't look closely at this, but maybe we can extend the mechanism used
> for directories to regular files.
> Comments ? Has anyone a better idea ?

It's not that easy. I'll restart this thread on tech-userlevel.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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