Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f7B0DdP06527 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:13:39 -0700 Received: from sgi.com (sgi.SGI.COM [192.48.153.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7B0DbV06507 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:13:37 -0700 Received: from relay1.corp.sgi.com (corp.sgi.com [198.29.75.13]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id RAA08345 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:12:23 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (sandeen@sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (root@chuckle.americas.sgi.com [128.162.211.44]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id RAA72076; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B7477D8.8C2F1855@sgi.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:10:00 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Detlef Vollmann CC: XFS list Subject: Re: Mode of symbolic link References: <3B746B43.41845CCC@vollmann.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Detlef Vollmann wrote: > > Hi, > if I create a symbolic link on an XFS filesystem, it gets its > mode from umask, instead of 777. I think this is wrong (on > all other filesystems I tested its always 777). > The problem is specially annoying as you can't change the > mode of the link later, always the mode of the target gets changed :-( While this may differ from other filesystems, [sandeen@Liberator sandeen]$ man symlink | grep permissions The permissions of a symbolic link are irrelevant; -Eric -- Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs sandeen@sgi.com SGI, Inc.