Re: [PATCH] Create a symbolic link as a regular file on filesystems without symlinks.

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On Tuesday 27 February 2007 23:44, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > -	if (S_ISLNK(mode))
> > +	if (trust_symlink_fmt && S_ISLNK(mode))
>
> First of all why "_fmt"? I would have called it "trust_symlinks".

Because the file type is encoded in a mask named S_IFMT ;)
But the more I think about it, I'll rename it to has_symlinks.

> Wouldn't this be better:
>
> -  		if (to_tempfile) {
> -  			strcpy(path, ".merge_link_XXXXXX");
> -  			fd = mkstemp(path);
> +  		if (to_tempfile || !trusk_symlink_fmt) {
> +			if (to_tempfile) {
> +	  			strcpy(path, ".merge_link_XXXXXX");
> +				fd = mkstemp(path);
> +			} else
> +				fd = create_file(path, 0666);
>
> Hmm?

Sure; it amounts to the same, but is shorter.

-- Hannes
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