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From: goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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Subject: Re: non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful
Keywords: chown security quota BSD SYSV
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Date: 7 Dec 90 19:31:17 GMT
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In article <109958@convex.convex.com>, tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>
> :Yup, it's true.  System V has avoided this blemish from BSD.
> 
> Sounds semi-religious to me.  Blemish?

Yes, blemish.  Even BSD's own man page for chmod(2) admits that this
behavior comes "at the expense of a degree of compatibility".

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