#8058: If .ghci is a symlink, permissions aren't read correctly -------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: berdario | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: low | Milestone: Component: GHCi | Version: 7.6.2 Resolution: invalid | Keywords: Operating System: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Unknown/Multiple | Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 hour) Type of failure: Other | Blocked By: Test Case: | Related Tickets: Blocking: | -------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Comment (by rwbarton): On Linux, as far as I know, symlinks don't have permissions (`ls -l` will always report `lrwxrwxrwx`). Permission to delete or modify a symlink is based on write permission for the directory containing the symlink. In any event, ghci shouldn't be claiming that "/home/dario/.dotfiles/dotfiles is writable by someone else" if it isn't. But I can't reproduce this (in ghci 7.4.2): I only get a message like that when either the directory containing the target of the symlink or the target itself really is writable by someone else. In other words, the permissions checks seem to be working correctly for me when .ghci is a symlink (on Linux, ghci version 7.4.2). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8058#comment:3 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler