tech-userlevel: Re: chmod on symlink Q

Subject: Re: chmod on symlink Q
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/26/2001 01:04:38

On 2001年4月25日, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> I would have thought so, too, but this is what it says in the man page
> for 1.5.1_BETA...
> 
> If the option -h is not given, unless the -H or -L option is set,
> chmod on a symbolic link always succeeds and has no effect.
Uhu... May I say that from a users POV this just sucks?
It's not intuitive and what I expect from other OSs (checked Solaris 7). 
 - Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>