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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: An idea probably discarded many times
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Date: 27 Oct 89 04:48:02 GMT
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In article <3495@zorba.Tynan.COM> larry@macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek) writes:
>Processes in Unix are alot like files though, they have user and
>group permissions just like files.

untrue.  process groups are more analogous to directory sub-trees than
to group id's.

--tom

    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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