at files and permissions

Rahul Dhesi dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Thu Jul 6 14:52:39 AEST 1989


An AT&T salesman earnestly told me that System V Release 3 does have a
disk quota mechanism.  I told him this was news to me.  What this has
to do with the following is left as an exercise for the reader.

I said:

   ...BSD allows only root to change file ownership.

In article <4884 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

   I certainly hope that V.4 doesn't have this *bogus* restriction.

My response:

   I doubt that it will need to.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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