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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
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Subject: Re: at files and permissions
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Date: 6 Jul 89 04:52:39 GMT
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An AT&T salesman earnestly told me that System V Release 3 does have a
disk quota mechanism.  I told him this was news to me.  What this has
to do with the following is left as an exercise for the reader.

I said:

   ...BSD allows only root to change file ownership.

In article <4884@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

   I certainly hope that V.4 doesn't have this *bogus* restriction.

My response:

   I doubt that it will need to.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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