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		somat on Oct 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Quest to Secure chown and symlinks Yeah but what do you do if your are not using shell? Hint: it's stat(2) (or equivalent in your language library) Additional hint: if using pythons os.stat set follow_symlinks to false. It recently took me an embarrassing long time to figure out why my script was failing to find symlinks.

nunez on Oct 13, 2023 [–]

but they were using a shell script in this blog though (and, yes, stat(2) is the way to go there)

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