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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 1995 02:18:13 +0100
From:      Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
To:        Steven G Kargl <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: symlink mode_t question 
Message-ID:  <7593.796612693@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:39:15 -0800." <199503310039.QAA07349@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 

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In message <199503310039.QAA07349@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steven G Kargl
 writes:
>Hackers,

>I have a simply question about the mode given to a symlink when I
>use `ls -l'.  Why is it alway lrwxrwxr-x, and not resolved to the true
>access permission of the file?

It gets the symlink permissions from the directory (so it's not always
775...)

Gary



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