From 562c23886699a93882d9a090475a44f5761f7d8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Vojtech Vitek (V-Teq)" <vvitek@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:31:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Adapt do_symlink() from upstream 3.0.8+; fix context

---
 configure.ac |    1 +
 syscall.c    |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ff21b3a..c841013 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -979,6 +979,7 @@ else
 	AC_MSG_RESULT(Using FreeBSD extattrs)
 	AC_DEFINE(HAVE_FREEBSD_XATTRS, 1, [True if you have FreeBSD xattrs])
 	AC_DEFINE(SUPPORT_XATTRS, 1)
+	AC_DEFINE(NO_SYMLINK_USER_XATTRS, 1, [True if symlinks do not support user xattrs])
 	;;
     *)
 	if test x"$enable_xattr_support" = x"yes"; then
diff --git a/syscall.c b/syscall.c
index c85f73e..ddfd042 100644
--- a/syscall.c
+++ b/syscall.c
@@ -53,11 +53,27 @@ int do_unlink(const char *fname)
 	return unlink(fname);
 }
 
-int do_symlink(const char *fname1, const char *fname2)
+int do_symlink(const char *lnk, const char *fname)
 {
 	if (dry_run) return 0;
 	RETURN_ERROR_IF_RO_OR_LO;
-	return symlink(fname1, fname2);
+
+#if defined NO_SYMLINK_XATTRS || defined NO_SYMLINK_USER_XATTRS
+	/* For --fake-super, we create a normal file with mode 0600
+	 * and write the lnk into it. */
+	if (am_root < 0) {
+		int ok, len = strlen(lnk);
+		int fd = open(fname, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, S_IWUSR|S_IRUSR);
+		if (fd < 0)
+			return -1;
+		ok = write(fd, lnk, len) == len;
+		if (close(fd) < 0)
+			ok = 0;
+		return ok ? 0 : -1;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	return symlink(lnk, fname);
 }
 
 #ifdef HAVE_LINK
-- 
1.7.6