Re: Bug#487317: perl-modules: File::Path::rmtree sets symlink target permissions to 0777
Drake Wilson <drake@begriffli.ch> writes:
> The rmtree implementation actually tries to avoid this, but does it
> wrong: it _reads_ the permissions from the symbolic link, then
> _applies_ changed permissions through chmod, which affects the target
> instead.
There's an lchmod function that avoids this behavior, but I'm not sure
that Perl provides an interface to it without a new XS module. (It's not
portable to all systems, but it is available on Linux.)
Failing switching to lchmod, File::Path should check with -l whether the
file is a link before chmoding it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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