Messages in this thread |  | | From | Zefram <> | Subject | Re: How does chown(2) works with symlinks? | Date | Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:11:55 +0100 (BST) |
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>Which file gets changed when a call to chown(2) is done on a symlink? >The man page gives the impression that it would follow the symlink and >change the owner of the file pointed by the symlink. Still, if a used >chown on a symlink now, it will only change the symlink. Was there a >change to the way it works?
Don't complain -- the current behaviour is the Right Thing. AFAIK Linux has always had the correct behaviour. Some other Unices get it wrong, which may have influenced the man page.
-zefram
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