Re: [Dump-users] restore incorrectly changes mode from 0777 to 0700 for the rip rescue distro

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:44:03PM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> This verification step shows many files have their modes
> changed from 0777 to 0700.  Spot checks of a few of the thousands of
> occurrences that appeared for a big filesystem showed symlinks were involved
[...]

I thought that on linux symlinks cannot have a mode different than 0777.

> so I created a simple example filesystem with symlinks and demonstrated the
> problem also with that simple example on rip.

I see that rip exists in linux and BSD versions. You are using the Linux
version, don't you ?

Stelian.
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