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- From: szielins@oracle.com (Stephan Zielinski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: chown() symbolic links?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.221005.23691@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 22:10:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.173049.3912@ednor.bbc.com> nsd@ednor.bbc.com (Nick Duffek) writes:
- >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?
-
- I haven't tried it yet m'self, but according to the manual...
- The system call chown's the symbolic link, but the "chown" command
- itself chown's what the link points to. Ergo, use perl. :-)
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