Subject: Re: weirdness with symlinks
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG, kenh@entropic.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 10/10/1994 04:57:27 
In 4.4-Lite, symlinks have no permissions or modes of their own; they
pick up either the current process's (for access checking) or the
parent directory's (for lstat(2)), whichever is convenient.

Whether or not this is a good thing is questionable.