[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #5802: catattr attempts to pull data from symlink's target
- From: "mmadia" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:33:18 -0000
#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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