Subject: Re: chmod & symlink broken in 1.6
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/29/2002 08:19:02
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:15:21PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
> 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...)
I think that the semantics are this way so that the symperm option of mount(8)
can work as expected...
Matt