Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:

> Before you guys jump off your cliff, there, can you enlighten me as to
> why chmod should be changing ownerships in the first place? :-)
> 
> [did the code to allow different permissions on symlinks than on their
>  targets ever get implemented?  I haven't played with it :-)]

Yes, it has own attributes including mode bits (though the mode bits
aren't used by default).

enami.