Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:00:20 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.99p1 - devfs: symlinks in /dev |
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H. Peter Anvin writes: > Followup to: <20000317063708F.mccramer@s.netic.de> > By author: Meino Christian Cramer <mccramer@s.netic.de> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Hi! > > > > Why do have symlinks in /dev (made by devfsd or "by hand") > > permissions of the pattern "lr-xr-xr-x" while their targets > > have perms like lrw-rw-rw- ? > > > > Writing access over the symlinks therefore does not work. > > > > Huh? Symlink permissions are irrelevant.
Precisely. Someone is doing something broken like lstat(2).
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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