Re: [PATCH] devfs and symlinks--2.3.48

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 19:55:01 EST


Jamie Lokier writes:
> 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.

Procfs is special in that way. For devfs, it doesn't matter.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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