Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.

[Michael Shigorin <mike () osdn org ua>]

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.

OpenWall Linux kernel patch also finds some usage for ownership
of symlinks in +t directories, just in case.

OTOH: I've recently had to fix permissions of a bunch of symlinks
(exactly due to -ow effect); apparently in ALT Linux the default
behaviour of coreutils-5.2.1 is to affect the target though at a
quick skim I can't identify the relevant patch, if any.

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