Wiggins D'Anconia wrote: > > What is the OP really doing? Why the need to change the ownership of a > link, and why wasn't it created with the "correct" ownership to begin with?
The ownership on a symlink should be irrelevant because the permissions are set to rwxrwxrwx by default. Just to speculate, the OP may be doing something based on the ownership of the file and using lstat() instead of stat() which returns the owner of the symlink instead. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>