From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2000-11-13T05:08:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6298] Re: lchown()/etc. and Unix syscall completeness

> M> (note: lchmod() doesn't seem to be a Posix call; plus, i've never seen a
> M> symlink that's not precisely 0777)
> moulon% ls -al /proc/6077/root
> lr-x------   1 decoux   msys           0 Nov 12 09:59 /proc/6077/root -> /
> pigeon% ls -al /proc/13914/cwd
> lrwx------    1 root     root            0 Nov 12 10:08 /proc/13914/cwd -> /
> Linux pigeon 2.2.10 #1 SMP Tue Aug 3 12:27:30 CEST 1999 i686 unknown

Ok, now tell me what effects it has on file opening =)

I know that Linux's <unistd.h> has fchown(), lchown(), but not lchmod(),
fchmod(). Ditto for the man pages. And chown supports --no-dereference,
but chmod does not.

matju