On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:07 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Why are these flags exclusive? Some systems support changing the file > flags of the symlink itself, with Python's os.lchown() and os.lchmod(). lchmod is highly unportable, so it's probably not worth supporting. It only exists on a few BSD derivatives; even OSX doesn't have it. <b