shouldn't chmod on a symlink change the permission of the file (dir, ...)
the link points to? At least with 1.6/i386 it doesn't do so.

(Works fine on Solaris, as expected...)


 - Hubert


yui# cd /tmp
yui# touch file
yui# ln -s file link
yui# ls -la file link
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Oct 29 14:11 file
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4 Oct 29 14:12 link -> file
yui# chmod 777 link
yui# ls -la file link
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Oct 29 14:11 file                 <==== !!?
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4 Oct 29 14:12 link -> file


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