Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 22:48:35 +0200 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | Re: buglet in ext2 sticky bit? |
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On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:19:59PM +0100, Peter Benie wrote: > > >For example, on OSF/1 4.x "tar x.." doesn't lchown() symlinks to the > >original owner when invoked as root. > > From the version number, I presume that's DEC OSF/1? yes
> > Some OSF/1 variants still don't have lchown. At least one variant > allows you to chown symlinks if and only if they are dangling. Yuck. I've seen this as well. don't remember where.
> Personally I'd like the Linux sticky semantics to stay as they are. Me too. There's logic behind it.
-- Frank van Maarseveen Driebergen f.vanmaarseveen@inter.nl.net The Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------
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