Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:29:42 GMT From: Franklin Pierce <14th.president@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/143926: FAQ entry 16.3 out of date Message-ID: <201002140529.o1E5Tgka017970@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201002140547.o1E5lObt044473@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 143926 >Category: www >Synopsis: FAQ entry 16.3 out of date >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-www >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 14 05:47:24 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Franklin Pierce >Release: 8.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64 >Organization: >Environment: n/a >Description: The setion under 16.3 saying "Symlinks do not have permissions, and by default, chmod(1) will not follow symlinks to change the permissions on the target file." Is at odds with known behaviour and the relevant man(1) pages: chmod(1) & symlink(7) Also, the use of the word "target" is at odds with ln(1) >How-To-Repeat: touch foo ln -s foo bar ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 user group 3 Feb 14 00:23 bar -> foo -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Feb 14 00:23 foo chmod go+x bar ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 user group 3 Feb 14 00:23 bar -> foo -rw-r-xr-x 1 user group 0 Feb 14 00:23 foo >Fix: Symlinks do not have permissions, and by default, chmod(1) will follow symlinks to change the permissions on the source file, if possible. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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