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To: Steven G Kargl <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: symlink mode_t question 
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In message <199503310039.QAA07349@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steven G Kargl
 writes:
>Hackers,

>I have a simply question about the mode given to a symlink when I
>use `ls -l'.  Why is it alway lrwxrwxr-x, and not resolved to the true
>access permission of the file?

It gets the symlink permissions from the directory (so it's not always
775...)

Gary