On Jan 18, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Sounds like ther kernel is begging for a lsys_chown. I would speculate it
> > is so that any joe user can nuke a symlink that he created, otherwise
> > wouldn't the root:root semantics be a limiting factor? I know that symlinks
> > are lrwxrwxrwx, it's neccessary to set the owner so any joe user can't just
> > nuke any symlink (I am aware that current directory owner/perms affect this).
> > Symlinks should not be at the mercy of the directory perms, files aren't.
> >
>
> Incorrect. Neither the owner nor the mode of a symlink have any
> effects, whatsoever.
well, it's visual e.g. in `ls -l' output etc, so there are at least
`esthetic' problems (and e.g. when comparing different outputs of ls)
but probably not much more...
Harald
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