Package: manpages
Version: 3.44-1
Severity: minor
symlink(7) says:
On Linux, the permissions of a symbolic link are not used in any opera-
tions; the permissions are always 0777 (read, write, and execute for
all user categories), and can't be changed.
but in reality:
$ ls -l /proc/self/fd
total 0
lrwx------ 1 zefram zefram 64 Apr 3 16:45 0 -> /dev/pts/13
lrwx------ 1 zefram zefram 64 Apr 3 16:45 1 -> /dev/pts/13
lrwx------ 1 zefram zefram 64 Apr 3 16:45 2 -> /dev/pts/13
lr-x------ 1 zefram zefram 64 Apr 3 16:45 3 -> /proc/5271/fd
so the man page is not correct that "the permissions are always 0777".
It is correct that they can't be changed.
-zefram
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