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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Summary: What SUID, SGID and Sticky bits do on inappropriate files
Message-ID: <2010@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
Date: 5 Feb 91 23:31:17 GMT
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In article <1991Feb4.124123.25558@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>,
>jmason@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jamie Mason) says:
> ...  And what is mode 000 for?? ...

A `zero mode' creat(2) is a neat atomic operation for non-root users.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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