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From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se>
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Subject: Odd (?) ownership of symbolic links
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To my surprise I just discovered that symbolic links inherit
owner from the directory in which they are created. This happens
on FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE and the 2.2-960501-SNAP (but on no other
OS I have tried it on, including FreeBSD 1.1.5).

Thus:
=09dumbo% cd /tmp
=09dumbo% touch foo
=09dumbo% ln -s foo bar
=09dumbo% ls -l foo bar
=09lrwxrwxrwt  1 bin    bin  3 Jul  1 19:45 bar -> foo
=09-rw-r--r--  1 mikko  bin  0 Jul  1 19:45 foo
=09dumbo% rm foo bar
=09rm: bar: Operation not permitted

Of course, for directories without the "t"-bit, the link *can* be
removed.

I don't know whether this is a bug or an obscure feature, the purpose of
which totally eludes me at the moment.


=09=09/Mikko


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