jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (01/02/90)
When applied to a symbolic link,
- chmod changes permissions of the real file
- chown changes ownership of the symlink
- chgrp is apparently ignored
Is this a bug or a feature?
Sample session:
~ > uname -a
HP-UX mhres 6.2 B 9000/320 mhres
~ > touch the-file
~ > ln -s the-file the-link
~ > ll the-file the-link
-rw-r--r-- 1 jv bsp 0 Jan 2 12:19 the-file
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jv bsp 8 Jan 2 12:19 the-link -> the-file
~ > chmod a+w the-link
~ > chgrp mail the-link
~ > chown news the-link
~ > ll the-file the-link
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jv bsp 0 Jan 2 12:19 the-file
lrwxr-xr-x 1 news bsp 8 Jan 2 12:19 the-link -> the-file
Johan
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