From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Sep 15 3:38: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (e165253.upc-e.chello.nl [213.93.165.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4E937B417 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 03:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AE67E3642E; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:37:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:37:53 +0200 To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: symlink modes (once again probably) Message-ID: <20010915123753.A90565@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (H) Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi I'm not sure whether symlinks should have, or not have, modes. But in my 4.2-STABLE system they have: drwxrwx--- 2 hans users 512 Sep 15 12:21 . lrwxr-xr-x 1 hans users 7 Sep 15 12:12 bla3 -> ../bla2 lrwxrwxr-x 1 hans users 7 Sep 15 12:15 bla4 -> ../bla2 The symlink modes were set by having umask 22 and umask 2 The modes cannot be changed by chmod, but according to CHMOD(1) 'Symbolic links do not have modes' which appears not to be true. So perhaps this man page should be updated, or something else is broken. Please also reply to hans@lambermont.dyndns.org as I'm not on -fs Hans -- http://lambermont.webhop.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message