What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Snoopy]

In article <19808 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbj at dsys.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:

|One thing I'd like to see is an rwx triplet that applied to root as
|well.  That is, if I `chmod r-w' on a given (source) directory, root
|couldn't add or delete files in it until he `chmod r+w'ed it.

This fundamentally changes the concept of root.  This would break many things.
It sounds like you are looking for a way to make a directory read-only without
setting up a partition to be mounted read-only.  Is this correct, or did you
have something else in mind?

What I would like added to the conventional rwx triplets is an append
permission bit.  This would give permission to append to a file, but not
to delete or modify existing contents.  Useful for log files, mail could
be delivered by an unprivileged process, etc.

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