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Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.

From: David Malone (dwmalonecnri.dit.ie)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 13:49:07 CDT


> (*)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.

        David.