Re: buglet in ext2 sticky bit?

Frank van Maarseveen (F.vanMaarseveen@inter.NL.net)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 22:48:35 +0200

On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:19:59PM +0100, Peter Benie wrote:
>
> >For example, on OSF/1 4.x "tar x.." doesn't lchown() symlinks to the
> >original owner when invoked as root.
>
> From the version number, I presume that's DEC OSF/1?
yes

>
> Some OSF/1 variants still don't have lchown. At least one variant
> allows you to chown symlinks if and only if they are dangling. Yuck.
I've seen this as well. don't remember where.

> Personally I'd like the Linux sticky semantics to stay as they are.
Me too. There's logic behind it.

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Frank van Maarseveen                               Driebergen
f.vanmaarseveen@inter.nl.net                  The Netherlands
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