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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-12 21:13:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-13 10:43:27 +1300 |
| commit | 92a2239f31184bb345e73a032f26105e90dc6e9a (patch) | |
| tree | aa8c713b58a87f14f64a4cbaf09f6932cff81a48 | |
| parent | f1e1b550a9293ea58cfbc306e6bb264243e77d2e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-92a2239f31184bb345e73a032f26105e90dc6e9a.tar.gz | |
symlink.7: Some "magic" symlinks have permissions other than 0777
See https://bugs.debian.org/743525
Reported-by: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/symlink.7 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man7/symlink.7 b/man7/symlink.7 index 36703bc890..e577cef3d9 100644 --- a/man7/symlink.7 +++ b/man7/symlink.7 @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ in any operations; the permissions are always 0777 (read, write, and execute for all user categories), .\" Linux does not currently implement an lchmod(2). and can't be changed. +(Note that there are some "magic" symbolic links in the +.I /proc +directory tree\(emfor example, the +.IR /proc/PID/fd/* +files\(emthat have different permissions.) .\" .\" The .\" 4.4BSD |