"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> The fact that the syscall is capable of setting the suid bits which
> are meaningless does not reflect on the fact that the syscall is
> capable of setting other bits which are meaningful.

Is the actual behaviour of _any_ of the mode bits on symlinks
documented?  The normal description of rwx don't really apply,
because, well, symlinks are and always have been special...


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