Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Robert Nichols) | Subject | Re: How does chown(2) works with symlinks? | Date | Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:17:50 GMT |
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In article <m0ud2oF-000h9vC@amador.org>, Orlando M. Amador <oamador@amador.org> wrote: :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?
I don't see anything in the manpage that suggests that. In any event, there is one place where the ownership of the link itself is significant (deleting the link from a directory which has it's sticky bit set), so it makes sense to have a way to change that ownership. It's 'chmod' that follows the link and affects the target, since the permission bits on the symbolic link itself are meaningless.
-- Bob Nichols rnichols@interaccess.com
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