Subject: Re: chmod & symlink broken in 1.6
To: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/29/2002 14:49:45
mmondor@gobot.ca said:
> Well, permissions are then set on the symbolic link, not the files
> they point to
No, no.
Normally, symlinks don't have permissions.
The chmod(1) manpage states:
[...]
-h If file is symbolic link, the mode of the link is changed.
[...]
This is a NetBSD extension. Standard is that the link is followed.
best regards
Matthias