Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.

[David Malone <dwmalone () cnri dit ie>]

> (*)Contrary to the FAQ entry you cited, it is sometimes useful to change the
> ownership of a symlink.  Since the owner of a symlink can be detected by a
> program, there can exist programs which depend on it.

Yes, indeed. As another example, Apache has an option to only follow
symlinks if they belong to the right person.

        David.