Allow symlinks to be created if they appear in the mtree specification.

PR:	bin/14171

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/mtree/verify.c b/usr.sbin/mtree/verify.c
index 25b33aa..d25797b 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/mtree/verify.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/mtree/verify.c
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ miss(p, tail)
 {
 	register int create;
 	register char *tp;
+	const char *type;
 
 	for (; p; p = p->next) {
 		if (p->type != F_DIR && (dflag || p->flags & F_VISIT))
@@ -172,18 +173,32 @@ miss(p, tail)
 		(void)strcpy(tail, p->name);
 		if (!(p->flags & F_VISIT))
 			(void)printf("missing: %s", path);
-		if (p->type != F_DIR) {
+		if (p->type != F_DIR && p->type != F_LINK) {
 			putchar('\n');
 			continue;
 		}
 
 		create = 0;
+		if (p->type == F_LINK)
+			type = "symlink";
+		else
+			type = "directory";
 		if (!(p->flags & F_VISIT) && uflag) {
 			if (!(p->flags & (F_UID | F_UNAME)))
-			    (void)printf(" (directory not created: user not specified)");
+				(void)printf(" (%s not created: user not specified)", type);
 			else if (!(p->flags & (F_GID | F_GNAME)))
-			    (void)printf(" (directory not created: group not specified)");
-			else if (!(p->flags & F_MODE))
+				(void)printf(" (%s not created: group not specified)", type);
+			else if (p->type == F_LINK) {
+				if (symlink(p->slink, path))
+					(void)printf(" (symlink not created: %s)\n",
+					    strerror(errno));
+				else
+					(void)printf(" (created)\n");
+				if (lchown(path, p->st_uid, p->st_gid))
+					(void)printf("%s: user/group not modified: %s\n",
+					    path, strerror(errno));
+				continue;
+			} else if (!(p->flags & F_MODE))
 			    (void)printf(" (directory not created: mode not specified)");
 			else if (mkdir(path, S_IRWXU))
 				(void)printf(" (directory not created: %s)",