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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:13:38 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        G.P@chatcity.de
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: symlink with mode
Message-ID:  <199909292313.BAA01323@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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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

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