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From: rwl@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: section 3 manpages, and, mode 444 distributions
Message-ID: <1503@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 18:03:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 20 18:03:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 10:04:24 EDT
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Summary: Justification (?) for mode 444

> The other question is:  WHY is all the source under /usr/src
> distributed mode 444??  Whenever I make a local copy of it (to fix a
> bug, for example) the first thing I have to do is change it all to 644!

Mode 444 seems like a reasonable precaution to keep junior roots from wiping all
their man pages.  I used to be annoyed by this to until I discover the ``noro''
option to vi(1).  Now I keep stuff that isn't changed often (like the man pages)
as mode 444 and set ``noro'' when editing one of them.

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