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On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 12:13:25PM -0400, Stephan Koledin wrote: > While doing some coda testing, I noticed the following coda behavior. > I'm wondering if this is the intended operation, or something that needs > some work. > Basically, I am unable to change ownership of symlinks that reside on a coda > filesystem. For example: ... > [skoledin_at_susie chowntest]$ chown codatest test.lnk > chown: test.lnk: Invalid argument Ownership is a relative term. Permissions in Coda are derived on the directory ACL's. Coda doesn't really use the traditional unix uid/gid/mode bits to determine access permissions. We support functions such as chown/chmod mostly to not to break too many existing applications. JanReceived on 2000-07-14 13:52:32