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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 14:09:33 -0500
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: [Bob DOT Burger AT sagian DOT com: 1.3.19: Everyone has write access
  to .lnk symbolic link files]
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At 06:31 PM 2/4/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>According to the behaviour on Linux, the symlink should always have
>permissions like "rw-r--r--" and only stat() returns "rwxrwxrwx".  The
>change is very easy
>
>   {
>     /* symlinks are anything for everyone! */
>     if ((attribute & S_IFLNK) == S_IFLNK)
>  -    attribute |= S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO;
>  +    attribute = STD_RBITS | STD_WBITS;

Those two lines can actually go away completely because attribute
is already set in path.cc . It should be changed there instead.
 
>and I actually doubt that it will negatively affect Cygwin but I'm not
>100% sure if I'm missing something.
>
>What do you think?

If you are missing something, so am I.

Pierre