Re: TAKE - change symlink perms to 777

[Wessel Dankers <wsl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-09-10 23:18:24-0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 02:26:14PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:23:39PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > > mode = 0777 & ~current->fs->umask;

> why? symlink permissions are completly irrelevant.

They are not. Consider a sticky directory.

> i think if one were to set a standard uniform permission on symlinks
> it should be 444 or 555, symlinks by thier nature are readonly, the
> only way to alter them is unlink() and re symlink() so why pretend.

That's a change that needs to be at the VFS level. For now it would just
look bad for XFS to differ in behaviour.

Kind regards,

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Wessel Dankers <wsl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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