On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:07:41 -0600
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> All,
> 
> please take a look at the following issue.
> 
> https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues/195
> 
> The first part of the fix is committed to master as shown on the issue;
> checkpath should *never* follow symbolic links when changing ownership,
> so I have moved to the lchown call instead of chown.
> 
> However, I'm not sure how to deal with the hard link issue in a way that
> will not break service scripts.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions for this, let me know.

I faced the hard link problem in another package (bug still restricted)
recently. I'm about to push the fix out but I just want check what I've
done is okay. The init script used to call chown/chmod -R, which is
obviously bad. I've compromised by only calling these on the
directories themselves (ignoring symlinks). I believe this is safe
because it's not possible to create hard linked directories these days?
Would you agree?

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer