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| -rw-r--r-- | rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py | 7 |
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) |