commit 98660df2502a6b2c92c651e6bc3f4a8be6143bb5
from: rsc <devnull@localhost>
date: Mon Feb 21 14:25:12 2005 UTC

better symlink

commit - 5db61d6221fc96c9734f96846193bfc66eee2d8f
commit + 98660df2502a6b2c92c651e6bc3f4a8be6143bb5
blob - 8a748b9df21bb886ce7fcd5b11b6925e77013026
blob + ce2dcecd6edf0d6358f359f819988f8d920d1bcd
--- src/lib9/_p9dir.c
+++ src/lib9/_p9dir.c
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ _p9dir(struct stat *lst, struct stat *st, char *name, 
 			d->mode |= DMDIR;
 			d->qid.type = QTDIR;
 		}
-
-		if(S_ISLNK(st->st_mode))
+		if(S_ISLNK(lst->st_mode))	/* yes, lst not st */
 			d->mode |= DMSYMLINK;
 		if(S_ISFIFO(st->st_mode))
 			d->mode |= DMNAMEDPIPE;
blob - 790b5fa057cb46a652b11bb0413f75c06ff83971
blob + 05b1ce616ed750330d8c4660da1a843b73484324
--- src/lib9/dirmodefmt.c
+++ src/lib9/dirmodefmt.c
@@ -35,16 +35,23 @@ dirmodefmt(Fmt *f)
 		buf[0]='A';
 	else if(m & DMDEVICE)
 		buf[0] = 'D';
-	else if(m & DMSYMLINK)
-		buf[0] = 'L';
 	else if(m & DMSOCKET)
 		buf[0] = 'S';
 	else if(m & DMNAMEDPIPE)
 		buf[0] = 'P';
 	else
 		buf[0]='-';
+
+	/*
+	 * It's a little weird to have DMSYMLINK conflict with DMEXCL
+	 * here, but since you can have symlinks to any of the above
+	 * things, this is a better display.  Especially since we don't do
+	 * DMEXCL on any of the supported systems.
+	 */
 	if(m & DMEXCL)
 		buf[1]='l';
+	else if(m & DMSYMLINK)
+		buf[1] = 'L';
 	else
 		buf[1]='-';
 	rwx((m>>6)&7, buf+2);