From 92a2239f31184bb345e73a032f26105e90dc6e9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 21:13:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] symlink.7: Some "magic" symlinks have permissions other than 0777 See https://bugs.debian.org/743525 Reported-by: Zefram Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/symlink.7 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/symlink.7 b/man7/symlink.7 index 36703bc89..e577cef3d 100644 --- a/man7/symlink.7 +++ b/man7/symlink.7 @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ in any operations; the permissions are always 0777 (read, write, and execute for all user categories), .\" Linux does not currently implement an lchmod(2). and can't be changed. +(Note that there are some "magic" symbolic links in the +.I /proc +directory tree\(emfor example, the +.IR /proc/PID/fd/* +files\(emthat have different permissions.) .\" .\" The .\" 4.4BSD