Bug 25016

Summary: symlink(7) manpage says symlinks have no owners
Product: Documentation Reporter: mkamm
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: ru <ru>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description mkamm 2001-02-11 22:50:02 UTC 
I quote output from "man 7 symlink":

###   For example, the command ``chown -R user slink directory'' will ignore
###   ``slink'', because symbolic links in this system do not have owners.

This is obsolete. Symlinks do have owners nowadays.

How-To-Repeat: 
man 7 symlink
Comment 1 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-21 13:27:42 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->analyzed

The suggested fix is also wrong because FreeBSD 3.0 and above 
support access mode on a symbolic link with the lchmod(2) call. 
In FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT, chmod(1) utility can be used to change 
the access mode on a symbolic link.
Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-21 13:27:42 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->ru

I will work on fixing the docs.
Comment 3 Tim Robbins freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-05-26 13:51:53 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: analyzed->patched

Offending example has been removed.
Comment 4 John-Mark Gurney freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-06-22 05:08:08 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

this was patched long ago.
Comment 5 John-Mark Gurney freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-06-22 08:59:35 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: closed->patched

RU says not to close this till it's MFC.  It's been 26 days since 
this has been fixed.  I'll let ru handle his PR's from now on.
Comment 6 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-08-14 15:09:44 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Fixes merged into 4.8-STABLE.