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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: descriptors vs pathnames (was Re: getcwd() and friends.)
Message-ID: <6839@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 89 05:09:06 GMT
References: <4457@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <1249@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <4468@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <1265@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1265@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Greg.Noel@SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg
Noel) writes:
>My point here is that the permissions required are an intrinsic part
>of the \use/ of an object, not of the evaluation of its name.

It is, however, desirable to have permissions for the evaluation of the
name too, for sometimes you don't want them to know even what it is
they don't know anything about.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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