Alexander Hall wrote:
Tasmanian Devil wrote:
Sorry, I was too fast, I just saw that symbolic links don't have
modes. I don't now then, sorry!
I'd say they do have modes, but they are not very useful:
$ umask 777; ln -s a b
$ umask 000; ln -s a c
$ ls -lF
total 0
l--------- 1 alexander staff 1 Dec 1 11:47 b@ -> a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alexander staff 1 Dec 1 11:47 c@ -> a
$ echo "test" > a
$ cat b
test
$ cat c
test
Ok... can someone please make this clear to me?
Looking into the man pages, it is stated over and over again that
symbolic links do not have modes. Do they _really_ not have them (see
example above), or are they just never used?
/Alexander
