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From: james@bigtex.uu.net (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News 2.11B patch #14
Message-ID: <858@bigtex.uu.net>
Date: 25 Feb 88 20:22:40 GMT
References: <503@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
Lines: 13
Keywords: microport
Summary: no MKDIRSUB with SysVr3

In article <503@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
> [...] The
> problem (fix) lies in another definition in "defs.h". There is a 
> "define MKDIRSUB" that was commented out of previous versions and
> with patch#14 needs to be un-commented out. This compiles cleanly now.

The 386 uPort unix (SysVr3) has mkdir() and rmdir() as system calls that
correcly make and remove directories using the effective user-id instead
of the real user-id.  MKDIRSUB should not be defined on the 386; only the
286.
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