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The owning uid/gid has always been stored in the inode rather than the directory entry. Did symlinks traditionally have identical ownership to the containing d
by caf 10y ago
The owning uid/gid has always been stored in the inode rather than the directory entry. Did symlinks traditionally have identical ownership to the containing directory?
- geocar 10y agoYes. IIRC this occurred sometime around SUSv2 (maybe a little earlier) when many filesystem implementations were storing the contents of the symbolic link physically outside of the directory listing.