Re: sys_chown() hits symlinks

chip@atlantic.net
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:47:03 -0500 (EST)

According to Linus Torvalds:
> Actually, the owner of a symlink _does_ matter for sticky directories
> [...]
> Essentially, if you cannot change the owner of a symlink, you cannot
> reliably do a "chown -R" on a directory tree.

Agreeable. But what of "chmod -R", then?

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