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- From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
- Subject: Re: chown() symbolic links?
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- In-Reply-To: nsd@ednor.bbc.com's message of Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:30:49 GMT
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:18:30 GMT
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- nsd@ednor.bbc.com (Nick Duffek) writes:
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- >AIX chown(symbolic link) affects the file to which the symbolic link points,
- >while all other UNIXes with which I've experimented affect the symbolic link
- >itself. Does anybody know how to chown() symbolic links on AIX?
-
- This is a change introduced in 3.2 for conformance to the OSF AES, so you're
- likely to see similar behavior on other platforms soon. With this change,
- unfortunately, there will be no way to change the owner of a symbolic link.
-
- -Lucien
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- Lucien Van Elsen IBM Research
- lucien@watson.ibm.com Project Agora
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