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Changing permissions on symbolic links

Changing permissions on symbolic links

Posted Sep 1, 2023 13:39 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Changing permissions on symbolic links by corbet
Parent article: The first half of the 6.6 merge window

Has it even been possible to express the operation of changing symlink permissions? "chmod symlink" dereferences the link to the thing it points to.

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Changing permissions on symbolic links

Posted Sep 1, 2023 13:48 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

fchmodat() can do that; see this article from July.


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