On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 14:08 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: > symlinks do not have an ownership/group on most filesystems. They > automatically > inherit the uid/gid of the target. (I also believe this is the same for > permissions.)
I'm not sure about "most" filesystems, but as far as I know all the standard Linux filesystems do support UIDs and GIDs for symlinks. > How do you change the mode of the link itself? As far as I understood this > can't be done on most filesystems. I'd be happy to attempt to change the > owner/group (and mode) of symlinks if there is a way not to follow the link. You can't (in POSIX) change the mode of the link but, as someone else already noted, you can change the ownership via lchown(2). See: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/lchown.html p. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
