Re: Fix posix 311 symlink creation mode

[Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@sernet.de>]

Am Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 10:21:07AM -0600 schrieb Steve French:
> Should this be 0777 instead of 0644?
> 
> I noticed the man page for symlink says:
> 
>      "On Linux, the permissions of an ordinary symbolic link are not
>        used in any operations; the permissions are always 0777 (read,
>        write, and execute for all user categories), and can't be
>        changed."

I thought about that as well. If you "ls -l" such a symlink once
created, it will show as 0777, probably the client does it
somehow. The problem however is that if you create it with 0777
server-side, everybody can mess with that file that the client view as
a symlink. That's why I thought that 0644 is the best approximation.

Regards, Volker