Problem when restoring a hard link to an inode having the immutable

[dump.git] / restore / utilities.c

diff --git a/restore/utilities.c b/restore/utilities.c
index 02c3793acdc61590e1d583eb53e2f2290906b737..f052071484824a7fc41db11ad265f0e90507c728 100644 (file)
--- a/restore/utilities.c
+++ b/restore/utilities.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 #ifndef lint
 static const char rcsid[] =
-       "$Id: utilities.c,v 1.7 2000/01/21 10:17:41 stelian Exp $";
+       "$Id: utilities.c,v 1.8 2000/02/08 12:22:43 stelian Exp $";
 #endif /* not lint */
 
 #include <sys/param.h>
@@ -244,6 +244,18 @@ linkit(char *existing, char *new, int type)
                                ret = link(existing, new);
                                chflags(existing, s.st_flags);
                        }
+#else
+                       unsigned long s;
+
+                       /*
+                        * Most likely, the immutable or append-only attribute
+                        * is set. Clear the attributes and try again.
+                        */
+                       if (fgetflags (existing, &s) != -1 &&
+                           fsetflags (existing, 0) != -1) {
+                               ret = link(existing, new);
+                               fsetflags(existing, s);
+                       }
 #endif
                        if (ret < 0) {
                                warn("warning: cannot create hard link %s->%s",