On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:57:01PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
pjd 2006-12-12 20:05:04 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
lib/libc/sys symlink.2
Log:
symlink(2) return EACCES if a component of the name2 path prefix denies
write permission.
Isn't that a bog in symlink(2)? POSIX and POLA don't mention it.
ugh
It has to be that way. You can't write to a directory you don't have
write permission, ie. you can't create files, directories, hardlinks and
symlinks. 'name2' is a file name, 'name1' is what symlink point at.
That's only for the _final_ component (after pathname resolution). See
my previous reply about this for mkfifo() and open() for more details.
Bruce
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