Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:55:01 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs and symlinks--2.3.48 |
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Jamie Lokier writes: > Richard Gooch wrote: > > Symlink permissions should not matter. The kernel doesn't care, and > > neither should applications. If some application out there is doing > > lstat(2), I'd rather break it and see it fixed, since it's probably > > broken in other ways too. > > For procfs, symlink permissions do matter.
Procfs is special in that way. For devfs, it doesn't matter.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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