Subject: Re: misc/6166: No obvious documentation on symlink modes
To: Dave Sainty <dave@dtsp.co.nz>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/17/1998 09:20:58
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Dave Sainty wrote:
: +The write, sticky, set-user-ID-on-execution and set-group-ID-on-execution
: +symbolic link mode bits have no effect on any system calls
This should read `currently have no effect'. Because the set-id and sticky
bits may, in the future, have meaning, and `currently' rather implies `don't
fool with them right now'.
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