RE: Is this the way?

[David Harris]

Subba Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
[snip]
> Why are the file permissions of the source file and the linked file different
here?
> Is that the way it is supposed to be?

Permissions of links don't matter. They are not used for any access checking.
Some man page should say this somwhere -- stat, access, chmod, etc -- but I
can't seem to find it now.

 - David Harris
   Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services