On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:57:08PM -0800, John W. Krahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.
He referenced the "-h" option for "chown" which would allow this. From the chown manpage on my Debian system - -h, --no-dereference affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (available only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink) Why exactly he would want to do this I'm not sure either. It would be nice if he would enlighten us, hint... hint OP. I'm curious :) Kent -- "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
