Richard Gooch wrote:
> Symlink permissions should not matter. The kernel doesn't care, and
> neither should applications. If some application out there is doing
> lstat(2), I'd rather break it and see it fixed, since it's probably
> broken in other ways too.
For procfs, symlink permissions do matter.
You can't readlink a procfs symlink that's not readable by you.
I'm thinking of /proc/N/cwd.
I don't know what other permissions are implied, but `ls -l
/proc/self/fd' shows me three symlinks with lrwx------ permission and
one with lr-x------ permission. There might even be a reason.
enjoy,
-- Jamie
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