Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: 2.3.99p1 - devfs: symlinks in /dev | Date | 17 Mar 2000 12:53:20 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20000317063708F.mccramer@s.netic.de> By author: Meino Christian Cramer <mccramer@s.netic.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi! > > Why do have symlinks in /dev (made by devfsd or "by hand") > permissions of the pattern "lr-xr-xr-x" while their targets > have perms like lrw-rw-rw- ? > > Writing access over the symlinks therefore does not work. >
Huh? Symlink permissions are irrelevant.
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