Systemd/src/delta
Lennart Poettering 62570f6f03 fs-util: add new CHASE_TRAIL_SLASH flag for chase_symlinks()
This rearranges chase_symlinks() a bit: if no special flags are
specified it will now revert to behaviour before
b12d25a8d6. However, if the new
CHASE_TRAIL_SLASH flag is specified it will follow the behaviour
introduced by that commit.

I wasn't sure which one to make the beaviour that requires specification
of a flag to enable. I opted to make the "append trailing slash"
behaviour the one to enable by a flag, following the thinking that the
function should primarily be used to generate a normalized path, and I
am pretty sure a path without trailing slash is the more "normalized"
one, as the trailing slash is not really a part of it, but merely a
"decorator" that tells various system calls to generate ENOTDIR if the
path doesn't refer to a path.

Or to say this differently: if the slash was part of normalization then
we really should add it in all cases when the final path is a directory,
not just when the user originally specified it.

Fixes: #8544
Replaces: #8545
2018-03-22 19:54:24 +01:00
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delta.c fs-util: add new CHASE_TRAIL_SLASH flag for chase_symlinks() 2018-03-22 19:54:24 +01:00