Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/10/24/18:31:38
On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 06:50:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>I want to suggest a simple patch. Under U*X and Linux, symlinks
>doesn't have explicit permissions. It's needless, because the
>permissions of the original file are used in fact. So a `ls -l'
>on a symlink looks like
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 14 Oct 24 16:28 link -> orig
>
>If one generates a symlink with cygwin-dll, the links _have_
>typical permission bit settings.
>
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 user group 14 Oct 24 16:28 link -> orig
>
>I would appreciate, if the
>following patch is made to path.cc, which would better reflect
>the behaviour of U*X like operating systems.
Applied.
cgf
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