[Nix-dev] Changing ownership of symbolic links

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Thu Apr 24 14:55:44 CEST 2014


Hello,

Currently, ‘canonicaliseTimestampAndPermissions’ doesn’t attempt to
canonicalize the ownership of symbolic links in store files.

Shouldn’t it try to do that with O_NOFOLLOW and then fchmod(2)?

Ludo’.


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