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From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>
To: "Clifton Royston" <cliftonr@lava.net>, <hackers@freebsd.org>
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:41:05 +0200
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Subject: Re: Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?
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"Clifton Royston" <cliftonr@lava.net> wrote:
[snip]
>   Can anybody confirm for me that the suid, sgid, and sticky bit are in
> fact no-ops for FreeBSD on regular non-executable files, as it appears
> they should be?

how about the use of hard link which is not os depedent ?

if ln source .source; then
    ok
else
    locked
fi

Cyrille Lefevre.
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