On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote: > fchmodat(2) says: > > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW > If pathname is a symbolic link, do not dereference it: > instead operate on the link itself. This flag is not > currently implemented. > > If the flag were implemented, it would make sense for fchmod() on a > symlink to succeed, wouldn't it? I think allowing permission bits to be changed for symlinks would lead to a mess. It doesn't much make any sense anyway. A logical implementation for fchmodat(..., AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) would be to return an error if the target is a symlink (instead of dereferencing it). Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
