[Buildroot] Patchwork cleanup #8: submitter notification

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2014-04-30 19:40 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:56:59 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > > We do a "chown -R 0:0" on all files in the root filesystem, before
> > > taking into account device tables. So I don't see how an ownership on
> > > the build machine can leak into the generated root filesystem.
> > 
> > chown does not change the ownership of a symlink, only that of the
> > pointed-to entity:
> > 
> >     $ touch titi
> >     $ ln -s titi toto
> >     $ sudo chown root:root toto
> >     $ ls -l titi toto
> >     -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   0 Apr 30 18:55 titi
> >     lrwxrwxrwx 1 ymorin ymorin 4 Apr 30 18:55 toto -> titi
> > 
> > So the symlink's ownership is not modified.
> 
> Should we do a chown -h -R 0:0 then?

Oh, Neat! I did not know about -h.

I was afraid that was a recent addition, but it's been in chown since
1996-05-19, so we can safely assume that even enterprise distros (that
get updated once in a blue moon) will all have it.

Yeah! :-)

I'll cook up a patch.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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