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From: Franklin Pierce <14th.president@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FAQ entry 16.3 out of date
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>Number:         143926
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       FAQ entry 16.3 out of date
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pgj
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 14 05:47:24 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jul 16 11:00:39 UTC 2010
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jul 16 11:00:39 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Franklin Pierce
>Release:        8.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
The setion under 16.3 saying

"Symlinks do not have permissions, and by default, chmod(1) will not follow symlinks to change the permissions on the target file."

Is at odds with known behaviour and the relevant man(1) pages:  chmod(1) & symlink(7)

Also, the use of the word "target" is at odds with ln(1)
>How-To-Repeat:
touch foo
ln -s foo bar
ls -l
lrwxr-xr-x   1 user  group         3 Feb 14 00:23 bar -> foo
-rw-r--r--   1 user  group         0 Feb 14 00:23 foo
chmod go+x bar
ls -l
lrwxr-xr-x   1 user  group         3 Feb 14 00:23 bar -> foo
-rw-r-xr-x   1 user  group         0 Feb 14 00:23 foo
>Fix:
Symlinks do not have permissions, and by default, chmod(1) will follow symlinks to change the permissions on the source file, if possible.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-www->freebsd-doc  
Responsible-Changed-By: jkois 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Feb 21 19:13:57 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Reclassify.  This is not a problem of the website but of the documentation. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143926 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->pgj 
Responsible-Changed-By: pgj 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Jul 15 17:22:39 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143926 

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Subject: Re: docs/143926: commit references a PR
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:40:13 +0000 (UTC)

 pgj         2010-07-15 20:39:58 UTC
 
   FreeBSD doc repository
 
   Modified files:
     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml 
   Log:
   - Fix up FAQ entry on chmod(1)'s behavior regarding symlinks
   
   PR:             docs/143926
   Submitted by:   Franklin Pierce <14th.president@gmail.com>
   
   Revision  Changes    Path
   1.1121    +5 -3      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: pgj 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jul 16 10:59:51 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed.  Thank you for the submission! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143926 
>Unformatted:
