[wplug] chmod with symlinks.
James O'Kane
jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Sat Aug 17 17:55:23 EDT 2002
This came up at the tutorial.
>From the chmod man page:
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chmod never changes the permissions of symbolic links; the
chmod system call cannot change their permissions. This
is not a problem since the permissions of symbolic links
are never used. However, for each symbolic link listed on
the command line, chmod changes the permissions of the
pointed-to file. In contrast, chmod ignores symbolic
links encountered during recursive directory traversals.
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As for the links that we saw in /proc that didn't have lrwxrwxrwx
permissions, I'm going to claim that all bets are off because /proc is a
virtual filesystem.
-james
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