[sane-devel] devfsd

[Oliver Rauch]

Robert Stanford wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to compile sane-backends so it doesnt check symlink
> permissions with the devfs.

Aehm, I do not know if there is a change for devfs,
but the permission of a symbolic link is - as far as I know -
always 777 (lrwxrwxrwx). When you try to change the permission
of a symbolic link then the permission of the linked file is
changed. This is at least what happens with ext2 filesystem.

Bye
Oliver

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