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Fix compression of symlinks with --force. 

xz --force accepted symlinks, but didn't remove
them after successful compression. Instead, an error
message was displayed.
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Lasse Collin 2010-02-01 11:44:45 +02:00
parent d4da177d5b
commit 82220a1490
1 changed files with 13 additions and 1 deletions
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src/xz/file_io.c
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@ -100,7 +100,19 @@ io_unlink(const char *name, const struct stat *known_st)
#else
struct stat new_st;
if (lstat(name, &new_st)
// If --force was used, use stat() instead of lstat(). This way
// (de)compressing symlinks works correctly. However, it also means
// that xz cannot detect if a regular file foo is renamed to bar
// and then a symlink foo -> bar is created. Because of stat()
// instead of lstat(), xz will think that foo hasn't been replaced
// with another file. Thus, xz will remove foo even though it no
// longer is the same file that xz used when it started compressing.
// Probably it's not too bad though, so this doesn't need a more
// complex fix.
const int stat_ret = opt_force
? stat(name, &new_st) : lstat(name, &new_st);
if (stat_ret
# ifdef __VMS
// st_ino is an array, and we don't want to
// compare st_dev at all.