Bug 449986

Summary: getcap and symlinks
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Component: libcapAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Peter Vrabec 2008-06-04 16:13:04 UTC
getcap does not need to complain about a broken link.

getcap -r .
Failed to get capabilities of file `./.kde/tmp-centaur' (No such file or 
directory)
Failed to get attribute of file `./.kde/tmp-centaur' (No such file or 
directory)

ls -l ./.kde/tmp-centaur
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-08-05 18:31 ./.kde/tmp-centaur -> /tmp/kde-root
ls -l /tmp/kde-root
ls: cannot access /tmp/kde-root: No such file or directory

Comment 1 Christopher D. Stover 2008-10-25 16:50:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 454987 ***