I said:

#: > 	* chown() as far as I could tell never affected the symlink
#: > 	  itself, although if, as you say, ownership were to be significant,
#: > 	  we'd need lchown().
#: 

Greg Woods said:
#: On SunOS-4.1.x it definitely does:
 [example deleted]
#: 
#: On the other hand, chmod() affects the target, not the link, and there
#: is no lchmod() [documented or in libc].

Well, considering that modes on a symlink are meaningless anyway, this
stands to reason.

				--*greywolf;