Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 08:50:36 -0600 (CST) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Subject: Re: symlink mode_t question Message-ID: <199504011450.IAA01456@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199503311629.CAA04990@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 1, 95 02:29:40 am
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> >I'm adding a symlink option to install(1), and I would like the > >symlink access permissions to reflect those of the original file. > They can't in general in FreeBSD-2.0. Symlinks have the same > attributes as their parent directory. Wasn't this going to be changed, because it's only there to conform to some posix recommendation for the case where symlinks aren't in inodes?
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