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-rw-r--r--Changelog8
-rw-r--r--archival/tar.c1
-rw-r--r--tar.c1
-rw-r--r--utility.c26
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 8dc40ca83..6581b5c90 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
* Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
end of line if there are no more application names).
- * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n" would segfault).
+ * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
+ would segfault).
* Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
* Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
@@ -37,7 +38,10 @@
* Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
- * ls formatting on 8 char user names fixed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
+ Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
+ files pointed to by the symlinks.
-Erik Andersen
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index aedb36a23..0fa09ffd8 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -596,6 +596,7 @@ readHeader (const TarHeader * hp, int fileCount, char **fileTable)
chmod(outName, mode);
return;
}
+ return;
}
/*
diff --git a/tar.c b/tar.c
index aedb36a23..0fa09ffd8 100644
--- a/tar.c
+++ b/tar.c
@@ -596,6 +596,7 @@ readHeader (const TarHeader * hp, int fileCount, char **fileTable)
chmod(outName, mode);
return;
}
+ return;
}
/*
diff --git a/utility.c b/utility.c
index 5ff03d7a0..69637c475 100644
--- a/utility.c
+++ b/utility.c
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ copyFile( const char *srcName, const char *destName,
struct stat dstStatBuf;
struct utimbuf times;
+ /* Grab the source file's stats */
if (followLinks == FALSE)
result = stat(srcName, &srcStatBuf);
else
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ copyFile( const char *srcName, const char *destName,
return FALSE;
}
+ /* Grab the dest file's stats */
if (followLinks == FALSE)
result = stat(destName, &dstStatBuf);
else
@@ -223,18 +225,18 @@ copyFile( const char *srcName, const char *destName,
}
if (setModes == TRUE) {
- //fprintf(stderr, "Setting permissions for %s\n", destName);
- chmod(destName, srcStatBuf.st_mode);
+ if (! S_ISLNK(srcStatBuf.st_mode)) {
+ chown(destName, srcStatBuf.st_uid, srcStatBuf.st_gid);
+ /* Never chmod a symlink; it follows the link */
+ chmod(destName, srcStatBuf.st_mode);
+ }
#if (__GLIBC__ >= 2) && (__GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 1)
- if (followLinks == FALSE)
+ else {
lchown(destName, srcStatBuf.st_uid, srcStatBuf.st_gid);
- else
+ }
#endif
- chown(destName, srcStatBuf.st_uid, srcStatBuf.st_gid);
-
times.actime = srcStatBuf.st_atime;
times.modtime = srcStatBuf.st_mtime;
-
utime(destName, &times);
}
@@ -414,6 +416,7 @@ recursiveAction(const char *fileName, int recurse, int followLinks, int depthFir
status = lstat(fileName, &statbuf);
if (status < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "status=%d followLinks=%d TRUE=%d\n", status, followLinks, TRUE);
perror(fileName);
return (FALSE);
}
@@ -515,14 +518,11 @@ extern int createPath (const char *name, int mode)
cp = strchr (cp + 1, '/');
*cpOld = '\0';
retVal = mkdir (buf, cp ? 0777 : mode);
- *cpOld = '/';
- }
- /* Return the result from the final directory, as that
- * is the one that counts */
- if( retVal!=0) {
- if ( errno!=EEXIST) {
+ if (retVal != 0 && errno != EEXIST) {
+ perror( buf);
return( FALSE);
}
+ *cpOld = '/';
}
return( TRUE);
}