[arch-general] A symlink in /etc

[Scott Lawrence]

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.)

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Scott Lawrence

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