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From: ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: The case of the phantom chowner (solved ?)
Keywords: chown("",NEWSID,NEWSGRP)
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.072719.6414@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 26 Jul 90 07:27:19 GMT
References: <1990Jul24.071014.4809@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> <726@logicon.com>
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre
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Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:

>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.

I have been told this.  I would be prepared to believe it for SunOS 4.1
except that I cannot work out what nntpd was doing in the directory
	/usr/local/src/cops

Also, why did it change this to 
        /usr/local/src/cops
when we changed the name (I suppose we may have moved it while nntpd was 
actually running ?)

It's a fun one in any case.

ant

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