On Sun, 24 May 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
If I issue a 'cp -a' on one konsole and a 'killall -s SIGINT cp' on
another konsole cp -a will terminate just as if it had finished copying.
Not quite; the exit status passed to the calling process will show the
signal used to terminate cp.
I'd like to be able to run chmod on a symlink so that users can't delete
the symlink. Can it be done?
___
Bug-coreutils mailing list
Bug-coreutils@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Marc Perkel wrote:
I'd like to be able to run chmod on a symlink so that users can't delete
the symlink. Can it be done?
The permissions, owner, and group of a symlink are not significant.
They are there only because other files have them and symlinks were
fitted into the existing framework
On Monday 01 of June 2009 23:14:17 Marc Perkel wrote:
I'd like to be able to run chmod on a symlink so that users can't delete
the symlink. Can it be done?
No. It's even not possible with a regular file. You can remove ordinary file
which you have no rwx access to. You rather want to adjust
