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- From: Ronald Guilmette <uunet!ics.UCI.EDU!rfg>
-
- In article <586@longway.TIC.COM> Clive Feather <uunet!relay.EU.net!ixi!clive> writes:
- >
- >The functions that operate on links rather than the file pointed to are:
- >
- > lstat() readlink() rename() remove() rmdir() symlink() unlink()
- >
- >The effects of the following functions form an open issue:
- >
- > chown() chmod() link() utime()
-
- Those may be an "open issue" as far as POSIX is concerned, but I call them
- an "open wound" as far as actual UNIX implementations are concerned.
-
- I get unhappy each time I need to do something like an lchmod() and
- realize (again) that there is no such thing. Sigh :-(
-
- // rfg
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 19
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