Re: TAKE - change symlink perms to 777

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Ok, it sounds like there's enough going on here that I'll revert the mod
for now, until I'm sure there are no other implications.

(Nathan had some concerns about acls as well...)

-Eric

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 08:43, Tad Dolphay wrote:

> This was discussed internally at SGI some time ago in PV 831071. At that time
> nobody could find any POSIX or other standard mandating that symlink 
> perms be set to 777. Furthermore, at the time xfsrestore relied on
> the symlink perms being set using the umask. I don't know if this is
> still the case.
> 
> Tad
> 
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