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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP
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Subject: set[ug]id and sticy bits on dirs (was Re: symbolic links are a botch)
Message-ID: <13901@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 20-Jun-87 18:48:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.13901
Posted: Sat Jun 20 18:48:02 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 09:06:31 EDT
References: <7879@brl-adm.ARPA> <2211@bunker.UUCP> <1715@munnari.oz>
Reply-To: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw)
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In article <1715@munnari.oz> kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz) writes:
(with regard to mode bits on a symbolic link)
>access its value in a path lookup.  I have ideas for the set[ug]id
>bits, and I'm sure a meaning for sticky will come to me!  I would like

OK, so what meanings attach to set[ug]id and sticky bits when applied
to the mode of a directory or the mode of a device file?

Mike Khaw
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