chown and symbolic links

[Pavel Roskin]

Hi, Pavel!

> local_lchown should be added, and lchown should be added to all
> targets... Because .. How do you get functionality of chown() if chown
> is turned into lchown?

This should be easy.  Resolve link and run lchown on the target.  But I
agree with you that VFS should not "fix" shortcomings and design problems
of libc and POSIX.

> > It's already the second patch in the last month that tries to use the VFS
> > level to give the traditional libc functions the "smartness" of the
> > traditional UNIX utilities, such as "ln" that can link into a directory
> > and "chown" that works on symlinks.
>
> I think this is bad. I do not like smartness such as this. It is
> likely to break stuff in future.

Ok.  Then I'll reject patches that do it.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin