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> > There are a lot of SVR3 variants (like IRIX and UNOS) that permit you
> > to give away your own files.
> 
> I was under the impression that all SysV's allow it (?).  It's a neat
> trick under SysV (all variants i know about) to unpack a foreign tar
> archive... and not being able to remove it then.
> 
> Anyway, the question was related to FreeBSD, i believe. :)

Yeah.  I was pointing out that it boiled down to "why isn't FreeBSD
like System V" when he asked "Why didn't I get this expected behaviour"
and got as a response "Are you from the moon?  That's *never* been
expected".

Well, "never" isn't true, and it isn't expected.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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