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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 1995 08:50:36 -0600 (CST)
From:      Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Subject:   Re: symlink mode_t question
Message-ID:  <199504011450.IAA01456@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503311629.CAA04990@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 1, 95 02:29:40 am

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> >I'm adding a symlink option to install(1), and I would like the 
> >symlink access permissions to reflect those of the original file.

> They can't in general in FreeBSD-2.0.  Symlinks have the same
> attributes as their parent directory.

Wasn't this going to be changed, because it's only there to conform to
some posix recommendation for the case where symlinks aren't in inodes?



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