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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:41:48 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc:        Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>
Subject:   Re: Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?
Message-ID:  <200406221741.48309.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzpeko8koa3.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <20040617205549.GA19254@lava.net> <200406221659.31501.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <xzpeko8koa3.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:38, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> > I think he wanted to use sticky/sgid/suid because they get removed when
> > the file is changed
>
> no they don't.

Oops, guess I'm used to using vi which does move/unlink - sorry!

> >                 so the application can go back and see if they've been
> > changed. That doesn't happen to attributes.
> >
> > Also, I don't think attributes work over NFS(?)
>
> they should, at least with v4.

Ahh neat :)

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