Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Fix to printer.c
Message-ID: <1988Dec14.185501.1939@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1785@ast.cs.vu.nl> <2718@sultra.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 88 18:55:01 GMT

In article <2718@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>BTW; could a V7-guru please let me know if the following is an un-problem.  I
>noticed that if I set the protection of an executable to 511, then no-one but
>the owner can execute it.  This is not the case with System V.  Is this a bug
>or a feature? ...

If it's a real executable, as opposed to a shell file or the equivalent,
then a 511 file ought to be executable to everybody.
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