[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #5802: catattr attempts to pull data from symlink's target

#5802: catattr attempts to pull data from symlink's target
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 Reporter:  mmadia                           |       Owner:  nobody        
     Type:  bug                              |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal                           |   Milestone:  R1            
Component:  Applications/Command Line Tools  |     Version:  R1/Development
 Keywords:                                   |   Blockedby:                
 Platform:  All                              |    Blocking:                
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 r36458-2hybrid @ trunk.

 While researching _packages_/, I noticed that catattr and addattr operate
 on the symlink targets & not the symlinks themselves. This makes it
 impossible for a symbolic link to contain attributes.

 '''catattr''' note: /b2 is a mounted R5 Pro Gobe CD. /BeOS_Tools/ does not
 exist.
 {{{
 /b2/_packages_>
 /b2/_packages_> ls -lh
 total 32K
 drwxr-xr-x 1 user root 2.0K Apr  6  2000 Development
 drwxr-xr-x 1 user root 2.0K Apr  6  2000 Experimental
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 user root   15 Mar 24  2000 GNU Sources -> /BeOS_Tools/GNU
 drwxr-xr-x 1 user root 2.0K Apr  6  2000 Japanese
 drwxr-xr-x 1 user root 2.0K Apr  6  2000 Media
 drwxr-xr-x 1 user root 2.0K Apr  6  2000 Trial Applications
 -rw-r--r-- 1 user root    0 Apr  6  2000 _do_not_install_
 drwxr-xr-x 1 user root 2.0K Apr  6  2000 us_english
 /b2/_packages_> ls /BeOS_Tools
 ls: cannot access /BeOS_Tools: No such file or directory
 /b2/_packages_> listattr GNU\ Sources
 File: GNU Sources
         Type       Size  Name
 ----------------------------------------------------------
         Text        12  "INSTALLER PACKAGE: NAME"
         Text        47  "INSTALLER PACKAGE: DESCRIPTION"
         Text         8  "INSTALLER PACKAGE: GROUP"
       'OFFT'         8  "INSTALLER PACKAGE: SIZE"
      Boolean         1  "INSTALLER PACKAGE: ON_BY_DEFAULT"
      Boolean         1  "INSTALLER PACKAGE: ALWAYS_ON"
  MIME String        31  "BEOS:TYPE"
     Raw Data        20  "_trk/pinfo_le"

 128 bytes total in attributes.
 /b2/_packages_> catattr "INSTALLER PACKAGE: NAME" GNU\ Sources
 catattr: file "GNU Sources", attribute "INSTALLER PACKAGE: NAME": No such
 file or directory
 /b2/_packages_>
 }}}

 '''addattr'''
 {{{
 ~/Desktop/catattr-test> ls
 ~/Desktop/catattr-test> touch this_is_a_file
 ~/Desktop/catattr-test> ln -sf this_is_a_file this_is_a_symlink
 ~/Desktop/catattr-test> ls -lh
 total 4.0K
 -rw-r--r-- 1 user root  0 Apr 25 11:28 this_is_a_file
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 user root 14 Apr 25 11:28 this_is_a_symlink -> this_is_a_file
 ~/Desktop/catattr-test> addattr -t string "INSTALLER PACKAGE: NAME"
 "Source Code Tarballs" this_is_a_symlink
 ~/Desktop/catattr-test> listattr this_is_a_symlink
 File: this_is_a_symlink
         Type       Size  Name
 ----------------------------------------------------------

 0 bytes total in attributes.
 ~/Desktop/catattr-test> listattr this_is_a_file
 File: this_is_a_file
         Type       Size  Name
 ----------------------------------------------------------
         Text        21  "INSTALLER PACKAGE: NAME"

 21 bytes total in attributes.
 ~/Desktop/catattr-test>

 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5802>
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