From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 29 16:14:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFC814D8C for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01323; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:13:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:13:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199909292313.BAA01323@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: G.P@chatcity.de Subject: Re: symlink with mode Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G.P. wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > What peculiar feature is it, that symlinks have modes !=0777 depending on > the umask when they have been created? Symlinks are "almost" regular files, just with a special meaning, so why shouldn't they have modes, too? > Of course the mode is inaccessible by chmod. chmod -H (see ``man chmod''). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message