Subject: Re: Symlink ownership (let's go back)
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Don Lewis <gdonl@gv.ssi1.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/03/1995 23:36:56
On Jul 30, 12:07pm, der Mouse wrote:
} Subject: Re: Symlink ownership (let's go back)
} If, as you say, POSIX specifies most calls to follow terminal symlinks,
} I see no reason we can't add parallel calls a la lchown(); we wouldn't
} need many - just one for each attribute-setting call, of which there
} are only five, by my count: chmod, chown, chflags, utimes, truncate.

What would ltruncate() do?

			---  Truck