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Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.
From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange () nsk no-ip org>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 08:58:09 +0100

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:49:07PM +0100, David Malone wrote:
(*)Contrary to the FAQ entry you cited, it is sometimes useful to change the
ownership of a symlink.  Since the owner of a symlink can be detected by a
program, there can exist programs which depend on it.

Yes, indeed. As another example, Apache has an option to only follow
symlinks if they belong to the right person.

If the target belongs to the right person, not the symlink itself.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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