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authordgaudet <dgaudet@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2006-11-05 01:19:37 +0000
committerdgaudet <dgaudet@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2006-11-05 01:19:37 +0000
commit4363435f2a366add774059111a1e405c6f700d76 (patch)
treedf023f151684f09d8564e23b72fe2a7f4660c4f8
parent1f00040a3541728a517176d318f0c099a3f813c1 (diff)
downloadrdiff-backup-4363435f2a366add774059111a1e405c6f700d76.tar.gz
Set symlink permissions properly. (Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@758 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
-rw-r--r--rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG2
-rw-r--r--rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
index 70bd2bc..42da38d 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
+++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
New in v1.1.6 (????/??/??)
--------------------------
+Set symlink permissions properly. (Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
+
Selection fix: empty directories could sometimes be improperly
excluded if certain include expressions involving a non-trailing '**'
were used. Bug reported by Toni Price.
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py
index 8d6a302..0b527b5 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py
@@ -100,7 +100,12 @@ def copy(rpin, rpout, compress = 0):
if rpin.isreg(): return copy_reg_file(rpin, rpout, compress)
elif rpin.isdir(): rpout.mkdir()
- elif rpin.issym(): rpout.symlink(rpin.readlink())
+ elif rpin.issym():
+ # some systems support permissions for symlinks, but
+ # only by setting at creation via the umask
+ os.umask(0777 - rpin.getperms())
+ rpout.symlink(rpin.readlink())
+ os.umask(077) # restore rdiff-backup standard umask
elif rpin.ischardev():
major, minor = rpin.getdevnums()
rpout.makedev("c", major, minor)