Re: Mode of symbolic link

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> if I create a symbolic link on an XFS filesystem, it gets its
> mode from umask, instead of 777.  I think this is wrong (on
> all other filesystems I tested its always 777).
> The problem is specially annoying as you can't change the
> mode of the link later, always the mode of the target gets changed :-(

While this may differ from other filesystems,

[sandeen@Liberator sandeen]$ man symlink | grep permissions
       The permissions of a symbolic  link  are  irrelevant;

-Eric

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