H. Peter Anvin writes:
> Followup to: <20000317063708F.mccramer@s.netic.de>
> By author: Meino Christian Cramer <mccramer@s.netic.de>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Why do have symlinks in /dev (made by devfsd or "by hand")
> > permissions of the pattern "lr-xr-xr-x" while their targets
> > have perms like lrw-rw-rw- ?
> >
> > Writing access over the symlinks therefore does not work.
> >
>
> Huh? Symlink permissions are irrelevant.
Precisely. Someone is doing something broken like lstat(2).
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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