suggests documenting behavior of VirtualFile.mode on symlinks.
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ public class IOUtils {
* execute permissions for the owner, group, and others, i.e. the max return value
* is 0777. Consider using {@link Files#getPosixFilePermissions} instead if you only
* care about access permissions.
- *
+ * <p>If the file is symlink, the mode is that of the link target, not the link itself.
* @return a file mode, or -1 if not on Unix
* @throws PosixException if the file could not be statted, e.g. broken symlink
*/
