On 3 Sep 2005, at 18:09, Ben Escoto wrote:

So how popular is 10.3 and how long will people keep using it?  Is it
worth writing a test to handle this case?  Or can we just call this a
bug in the OS?

10.4 shipped recently (April 29th). 10.3's still in widespread use, I believe. I don't know how long that will be true.

According to this page <http://www.honkbude.org/article.php? story=20040801233916583&mode=print>, there's just no good way to do this.

According to <http://www.wodeveloper.com/omniLists/macosx-dev/2001/ February/msg00570.html>, symlinks just use their parent directory's permissions on OS X. But that doesn't seem accurate:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ mkdir foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ cd foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/foo]$ ln -s baz bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/foo]$ ls -laF
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    3 slamb  wheel  102 Sep  3 23:01 ./
drwxrwxrwt   16 root   wheel  544 Sep  3 23:01 ../
lrwxr-xr-x    1 slamb  wheel    3 Sep  3 23:01 bar@ -> baz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/foo]$ chmod 700 .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/foo]$ ls -laF
total 8
drwx------    3 slamb  wheel  102 Sep  3 23:01 ./
drwxrwxrwt   16 root   wheel  544 Sep  3 23:01 ../
lrwxr-xr-x    1 slamb  wheel    3 Sep  3 23:01 bar@ -> baz

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Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>



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