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From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: The case of the phantom chowner (solved ?)
Keywords: chown("",NEWSID,NEWSGRP)
Message-ID: <726@logicon.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 16:53:45 GMT
References: <1990Jul24.071014.4809@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California
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On UNIX 4.2 BSD, at least, chown() on a zero-length file name changes
the ownership of the current directory.  This is easy to demonstrate.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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