Re: Mode of symbolic link

[Detlef Vollmann <dv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:

> While this may differ from other filesystems,
> 
> [sandeen@Liberator sandeen]$ man symlink | grep permissions
>        The permissions of a symbolic  link  are  irrelevant;

Oops, sorry.  I thought I had a test case where the permissions
of the link were evaluated, but this turned out to be my mistake.

Sorry again.
Detlef

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