[ Just stumbled on this on the mail archive. ]
Hi!
On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 08:42:07 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Steven Chamberlain:
> > On linux, a symlink can only have permissions 0777 (lrwxrwxrwx)
> >
> > But on at least kfreebsd (maybe hurd?) there is no such limitation, and
> > permissions
Hi,
On linux, a symlink can only have permissions 0777 (lrwxrwxrwx)
But on at least kfreebsd (maybe hurd?) there is no such limitation, and
permissions are set like any regular file. That also means the umask is
applied... and tar and dpkg-deb preserve this.
This proves to be an issue for:
