Symlinks in OS X (10.4.1)

Wesley W. Terpstra wesley at terpstra.ca
Tue Oct 16 04:37:09 GMT 2007


On Oct 15, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:18:39PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
>> I believe in osx the symlink permissions have meaning (as opposed to
>> linux).
>
> Is there a system call that allows their permissions to be changed
> after they've been created?  (Since lchmod is lacking.)

I was about to say no, but then I saw this:
setattrlist + ATTR_CMN_ACCESSMASK

I'll check tomorrow if one can write lchmod for osx using this.

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