On Tuesday 20 November 2007 06:11:12 Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> Okay, looked at the code.
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> no -h => stat, getxattr, listxattr
> -h => lstat, lgetxattr, llistxattr
Yes.
> -P => skip symlinks (as soon as see them, then return from place in walk)
No, -h never skips symlinks. (But depending on -L and -P, it may not follow
symlinks to directories.) Here is an additional comment for do_print, and an
equivalent version of the if in there. I hope that this will finally clarify
the code.
> it would be nicer to have more explanation in the man page.
Agreed. How about the attached manpage patches?
Thanks,
Andreas
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