On 7 Dec 2001, Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't take this path - ownerships on symlinks are a pretty > meaningless concept
Right. For just this reason I just changed the regression test to use an included "tiny ls", rather than the system's ls, because on some systems the permissions and ownership it reports for symlinks can be randomly wierd. For example, on FreeBSD the perm bits on a symlink are set to 0777 & ~umask, but they can't be chmodded and they have no effect on its behaviour. Havoc for test cases that try to diff two directory listings! > Why _not_ take the conservation approach "unless somebody reports a > problem" [sic]? I'll speak to tridge, but I think we should pull this line out because of the scenario Cameron describes. -- Martin (Now on ZX12-R)
