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bug#10311: RFE: Give chmod a "-h" option as well
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#10311: RFE: Give chmod a "-h" option as well |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:58:50 -0800 |
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On 12/16/11 10:37, Bob Proulx wrote:
> an example of the behavior from a BSD system showing the
> restriction through a symlink's permissions.
In BSD systems a symlink's permissions do not restrict
anything. They exist, and can be changed, and you can look
at them with ls -l, but they have no effect on what you can
do with the symlink.
I do recall an alternative implementation where you could
not use readlink without read permission to the symlink,
and you could not follow the symlink with search (x)
permission. But I don't remember which one that was;
perhaps it was just experimental.
In NTFS symbolic permissions have a different interpretation,
which I don't know much about and may not be relevant here.