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thanks
Yes, there are odd exceptions. Under /proc/PID, there are some "magic"
symlinks that have other permissions. I"ve added some text to the man
page to note this. Thanks for the report.
On Linux, the permissions of a 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.
(Note that there are some "magic" symbolic links in the /proc
directory tree—for example, the /proc/PID/fd/* files—that have
different permissions.)
Cheers,
Michael
