From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] filesystems: also chown symlinks
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:32:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140609113253.75f0aba8@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402257743-21650-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Dear Yann E. MORIN,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:02:23 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
>
> Currently, the symlinks in the generated filesystems will have the
> UID of the user running the build, because 'chown' does not change
> the ownership of symlinks, by default.
>
> Although the implications are limited, some may not want that UID
> to leak in the generated filesystems.
>
> So, use 'chown -h' so even symlinks get properly chowned.
>
> Reported-by: Angelo Dureghello <angelo@barix.com>
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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2014-06-08 20:02 [Buildroot] [PATCH] filesystems: also chown symlinks Yann E. MORIN
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