Re: Kern_symlink(...) is not setting vattr.va_type

From: David Malone <dwmalone_at_maths.tcd.ie> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:59:36 +0000 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:52 UTC

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:27:53PM +0530, Rohit Jalan wrote:
> I've reproduced the following from vfs_syscalls.c,v 1.399.  
> Vattr.va_type is set only if MAC is defined, should not it
> be set always? Or is setting the same a responsibility of 
> VOP_SYMLINK()?

I think VOP_SYMLINK does the work for us. If you check back
through the file's history, this line was added in revision
1.295 when the MAC framework was introduced.

	David.