Eric Blake wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > * The mode bits of a symlink are not used. The original Unix authors > > ignored them and did not provide any way to change them. > > That's true for Linux, but false for BSD (where the mode bits of a > symlink can allow restriction on dereferencing through the symlink).
What?! I was not aware of this. I have been too SysV centric for too many years. And I do not have access to a BSD system in which to learn about it. It would be informative to myself and I expect others if you could post an example of the behavior from a BSD system showing the restriction through a symlink's permissions. Bob
