From d769da93a56590c23ce9430a1d970e31e835ae88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Grant Erickson Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:46:37 +1000 Subject: mkfs.jffs2: Add Support for Symlinks to Device Table Added support for symbolic links to the grammar of the device table file such that links that already exist in the root working directory may have their permissions and ownership changed. Creating symbolic links anew is still unsupported. Added a note to this effect in the manual reference page. Print out the type character when encountering an unsupported file type (e.g. symbolic links when created anew). Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer --- mkfs.jffs2.1 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'mkfs.jffs2.1') diff --git a/mkfs.jffs2.1 b/mkfs.jffs2.1 index 4080032..1eefeda 100644 --- a/mkfs.jffs2.1 +++ b/mkfs.jffs2.1 @@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ Display version information. Generate an appendage image for FILE. If FILE is written to flash and flash is appended with the output, then it seems as if it was one thing. +.SH LIMITATIONS +The format and grammar of the device table file does not allow it to +create symbolic links when the symbolic links are not already present +in the root working directory. + +However, symbolic links may be specified in the device table file +using the \fIl\fR type for the purposes of setting their permissions +and ownership. .SH BUGS JFFS2 limits device major and minor numbers to 8 bits each. Some consider this a bug. -- cgit v1.2.3