From f278b90b77c374a2bc0da28aaa822a8df363a00e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: deraadt Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 08:49:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] old 4.4 symlink behaviour no long valid --- bin/ln/symlink.7 | 14 +------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/bin/ln/symlink.7 b/bin/ln/symlink.7 index 36cd96abf71..be2bc18860a 100644 --- a/bin/ln/symlink.7 +++ b/bin/ln/symlink.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: symlink.7,v 1.3 1995/03/21 09:06:13 cgd Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: symlink.7,v 1.4 1996/04/25 15:44:56 mycroft Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -121,18 +121,6 @@ is an alias for .Xr unlink 2 , it also does not follow symbolic links. .Pp -Unlike other filesystem objects, symbolic links do not have an owner, -group, permissions, access and modification times, etc. -The only attributes returned from an -.Xr lstat 2 -that refer to the symbolic link itself are the file type (S_IFLNK), -size, blocks, and link count (always 1). -The other attributes are filled in from the directory that contains -the link. -For portability reasons, you should be aware that other implementations -(including historic implementations of 4BSD), implement symbolic links -such that they have the same attributes as any other file. -.Pp The .Bx 4.4 system differs from historical 4BSD systems in that the system call -- 2.20.1