[arch-general] A symlink in /etc
Hello, I found a symlink named os-release in the /etc directory. The package it points to is owned by filesystem, but I don't know which package the symlink belongs to. And I think the symlink is world writable by mistake, but I don't know to whom should I report the bug. Does anyone know something about this?
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Neven Sajko wrote:
Hello, I found a symlink named os-release in the /etc directory. The package it points to is owned by filesystem, but I don't know which package the symlink belongs to. And I think the symlink is world writable by mistake, but I don't know to whom should I report the bug. Does anyone know something about this?
Symlinks will appear lrwxrwxrwx, but are not actually writable. (You can only delete and re-create, so it's the permissions of the directory that are relevant.) -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.17.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 7 23:43:32 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I guess that's why the plan9port ls presented it differently :) Thank you Scott, I should have first searched for more info on symlinks.
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