[bug #13432] ownership is not preserved when copying symlinks

[Pavel Tsekov <savannah-bounces gnu org>]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #13432 (project mc):

Maybe we should keep the chown() call in local_chown() and introduce a new
function called local_lchown() ? Then we use the appropriate call based on the
value of 'follow Links' ? In any case currently MC doesn't support changing
the ownership of the link when the link is copied:

        if (S_ISLNK (sb.st_mode)) {
            int retval;

            retval = make_symlink (ctx, src_path, dst_path);
            return retval;
        }

This is the block of code dealing with symlinks in copy_file_file().


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