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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: symbolic link filemodes unchangeable.
Keywords: ln, links, symbolic
Message-ID: <5223@omepd.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 89 17:44:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: omepd.5223
References: <24818@sequent.UUCP>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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In-reply-to: paulr@sequent.UUCP (Paul Reger)

In article <24818@sequent.UUCP>, paulr@sequent (Paul Reger) writes:
| Why can't you change the filemodes of a symbolic link ? :
Two parts to the answer:

(1) you can't, but luckily

(2) you don't need to.  The bits are never looked at.  Don't worry, B happy.

(Suprisingly, the *last* time I heard this topic brought up was while
*I* was at Sequent; I was employee #64 there...)

Just another <something> hacker,
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