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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Strange reaction to wierd file mode
Message-ID: <6296@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 21:31:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6296
Posted: Wed Aug 19 21:31:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 06:15:16 EDT
References: <719@csun.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <719@csun.UUCP> aeusesef@csun.UUCP (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>While playing with an AT&T SystemV 2.0 Unix, I made a little file
>with access mode 0446 (r--r--rw-), and tried to write into it.
>Surprise!  The kernal said I couldn't...

No surprise at all; that's how it is intended to work.
Please do not muck around with it.