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- From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: chown() symbolic links?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.175509.1851@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:55:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.173049.3912@ednor.bbc.com> <LUCIEN.92Nov10101830@fionavar.watson.ibm.com>
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- > lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen) writes:
- >>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?
- >
- >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.
-
- What Lucien says is true, but it is the IEEE POSIX 1003.2 (now official)
- standard that dictates that chown 'symlink' affects the file to which
- the link points.
-
- We are adding a "-h" option to allow modifying the link itself, due out
- in the "next major release" (I *know* you've heard this before, but it's
- *true* for this item!). Please don't ask for a specific release number;
- I don't get to number them -- I do know it's in the release I'm working
- on now.
-
- cheers,
- mark
-
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