Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:04:53 +1100 | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs |
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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 05:56:51PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote: > > But, as I've already said, tar doesn't store whatever magic is needed > to tell the FS driver that this symlink is really a devlink.
It's worse than that. Current filesystems don't let you fiddle with the permission bits on a symlink. I had hoped we could just set a permission bit on the symlink and then everything else would be handled invisibly. But my experiments earlier seem to show that playing with symlink permissions just doesn't work currently. I thought you could do it in C.
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