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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: New fs/protect.c that allows mortals to chown()
Message-ID: <6894@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 Nov 89 17:35:35 GMT
References: <689.255678C1@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <4473@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <4473@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> Thanks, but no thanks.  POSIX has a long story about chown, depending on
> the status of _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED.  I have defined it and will make
> the implementation conform accordingly.  

This is like links to directories... something slightly dangerous and
occasionally very useful. Please reconsider this action... like links
to directories, this is something that should be at most a configuration
option that's normally OFF.
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