> Two questions about makelink() from src/usr.bin/xinstall/xinstall.c:

> - The mode being metalogged for hard links is [...]
> - Why are owner, group and fflags ignored?

Perhaps because the mode, owner, group, etc, are all necessarily
inherited from the linked-to file, so there's no point in bothering
with them?

I think the right fix here is not to change the metalogged data for the
hardlink, but rather to make tools that listen to that data ignore the
values for a hardlink - or at the very least use the corresponding
values for the target (which must necessarily be earlier in the file,
right?) instead.

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