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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: julian@whistle.com, proff@suburbia.net
Subject: Re: comments on this change please.
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>And anyhow,  remember that under BSD4.4 ffs, symlinks don't HAVE
>permissions
>and owners etc. because they don't have inodes..

Actually, they have inodes, but the ownership and permissions in
their inodes are ignored.

Bruce