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authorowsla <owsla@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2006-12-29 16:10:15 +0000
committerowsla <owsla@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2006-12-29 16:10:15 +0000
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tree27f1a6070df5d3754999fef9f557ce8dd98f17da /rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Globals.py
parent8eb79a57c18395864e6ef3c776a40d57d9743332 (diff)
downloadrdiff-backup-11ac04d5be78aacfd394b4822095f4aeebe18d31.tar.gz
Add global to avoid unnecessary system calls on systems where umask does not affect symlinks
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@775 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Globals.py b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Globals.py
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--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Globals.py
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Globals.py
@@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ never_drop_acls = None
# prevent highbit permissions on systems which don't support them.)
permission_mask = 07777
+# If true, symlinks permissions are affected by the process umask, and
+# we should change the umask when creating them in order to preserve
+# the original permissions
+symlink_perms = None
+
def get(name):
"""Return the value of something in this module"""
return globals()[name]