Subject: Re: chmod & symlink broken in 1.6
To: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/29/2002 14:33:46
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Matthew Mondor 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...

Uh, what kind of excuse is this to not work as expected?
What do I miss?


 - Hubert

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