-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: fdupes Version: 1.50-PR2-3
fdupes should respect uid, gid and access permissions before replacing files by hard links. Sample session: % umask 0022; echo hello >a; cp -p a b; ln b c; chmod go-r b; ls -li total 12 27394110 -rw-r--r-- 1 harri harri 6 Jul 23 11:36 a 27394111 -rw------- 2 harri harri 6 Jul 23 11:36 b 27394111 -rw------- 2 harri harri 6 Jul 23 11:36 c % fdupes -L . [+] ./c [h] ./a [h] ./b % ls -li total 12 27394111 -rw------- 3 harri harri 6 Jul 23 11:36 a 27394111 -rw------- 3 harri harri 6 Jul 23 11:36 b 27394111 -rw------- 3 harri harri 6 Jul 23 11:36 c See how a world readable file became unreadable for anybody but the owner? Since "a" has different access permissions it shouldn't have been replaced by a hard link to b. Same goes for identical files with different owners. fdupes is loosing too much information here. Regards Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4ql00ACgkQUTlbRTxpHjfFUwCghTczFVenV5Zply3tQmo6o953 YRQAnRC37eNKIY23VYkZSMc02Kkv4PlF =KDJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
