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| author | Philip Guenther <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-12-13 20:59:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Guenther <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-12-13 20:59:25 +0000 |
| commit | a7173ea656cce26a51dc66641a446b063e065ebe (patch) | |
| tree | e9a18a752ceead02dd624d3a31c09899523a57b2 /bin/chmod/chmod.1 | |
| parent | 561d3fa7762bc8ba8b9d8c11cf58628bc7dccc80 (diff) | |
Correct the handling of symbolic links by chmod/chgrp/chown/chflags,
making them more resistant to TOCTOU race conditions too.
ok tobias@
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/chmod/chmod.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/chmod/chmod.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/bin/chmod/chmod.1 b/bin/chmod/chmod.1 index 11749ace923..346da0b4fc8 100644 --- a/bin/chmod/chmod.1 +++ b/bin/chmod/chmod.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: chmod.1,v 1.38 2014/01/25 15:43:40 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: chmod.1,v 1.39 2014/12/13 20:59:24 guenther Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: chmod.1,v 1.8 1995/03/21 09:02:07 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)chmod.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/31/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 25 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 13 2014 $ .Dt CHMOD 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -80,13 +80,8 @@ change the mode of the directory and all the files and directories in the file hierarchy below it. .El .Pp -Symbolic links do not have modes, so unless the -.Fl H -or -.Fl L -option is set, -.Nm -on a symbolic link always succeeds and has no effect. +Symbolic links have modes, +but those modes have no effect on the kernel's access checks. The .Fl H , .Fl L , |