Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.

From: David Malone (dwmalone_at_cnri.dit.ie)
Date: 05/14/04

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    To: Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik@MicroFocus.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:49:07 +0100

    > (*)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.

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