From: Mike Yuan <me@yhndnzj.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:10:50 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: nspawn-patch-uid: clarify that changing mode of symlink is unsupported
X-Git-Tag: v255-rc4~49^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F30196%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

nspawn-patch-uid: clarify that changing mode of symlink is unsupported
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diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn-patch-uid.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn-patch-uid.c
index 66663adc2b9..b8918a2315f 100644
--- a/src/nspawn/nspawn-patch-uid.c
+++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn-patch-uid.c
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static int patch_fd(int fd, const char *name, const struct stat *st, uid_t shift
                 if (name) {
                         if (!S_ISLNK(st->st_mode))
                                 r = fchmodat(fd, name, st->st_mode, 0);
-                        else /* AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW is not available for fchmodat() */
+                        else /* Changing the mode of a symlink is not supported by Linux kernel. Don't bother. */
                                 r = 0;
                 } else
                         r = fchmod(fd, st->st_mode);