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From: guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: Standards Update (3 of 4): NBS FIPS
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Date: 25 Jan 88 01:27:24 GMT
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From: uunet!Sun.COM!guy (Guy Harris)

This may want to be forwarded to Shane, rather than posted; unfortunately,
I don't remember his email address.

[ He's ahby@bungia.mn.org or uunet!rutgers!umn-cs!bungia!ahby,
but this looks like a useful correction of a technical detail
(one I missed on review) that should be posted. -mod ]

        - Only the super-user shall be allowed to link or
          unlink directories (2.10.4, lines 938 - 939).

          Another useful option.  A portable application may
          need to know whether it requires "approprite
          privileges" to move directories around.

No portable application needs "appropriate privileges" to move directories
around; it can use "rename()".  The correct way to move anything under a POSIX
implementation is to use "rename()", not "link()" and "unlink()".

Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 6