Control: tag -1 +confirmed +upstream On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 04:51:15PM +0100, Zefram wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.44-1 > Severity: minor > > symlink(7) says: > On Linux, the permissions of a symbolic link are not used in any opera- > tions; the permissions are always 0777 (read, write, and execute for > all user categories), and can't be changed. > > but in reality: > $ ls -l /proc/self/fd > total 0 > lrwx------ 1 zefram zefram 64 Apr 3 16:45 0 -> /dev/pts/13 [...] > so the man page is not correct that "the permissions are always 0777". > It is correct that they can't be changed.
I wonder where in the kernel that specificity of sysfs/procfs comes from.. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
