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- From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: chown() symbolic links?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.152043.10042@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:20:43 GMT
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- | mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- |> nsd@ednor.bbc.com (Nick Duffek) writes:
- |> Does anybody know how to chown() symbolic links on AIX?
- |AIX follows POSIX behavior, which does not allow you to. I find this
- |annoying.
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- The answer, of course, is lchown(). Which we are doing, by massive
- request....
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