Subject: Re: chmod & symlink broken in 1.6
To: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/29/2002 14:52:20
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> > Uh, what kind of excuse is this to not work as expected?
> > What do I miss?
>
> Well, permissions are then set on the symbolic link, not the files
> they point to, precisely. Because the permissions of the link itself
> may become relevant with symperm enabled mounts.

As far as I understand, the default is sysperm disabled, and I have not
added that flag.


 - Hubert

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