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Date:      Sun, 7 May 1995 04:48:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        dunser@msmailgw.sdsmt.edu
Subject:   Re: 950412-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199505070248.EAA06338@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9505062324.AA25524@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 6, 95 05:24:11 pm

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As Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > Changing ownership is only allowed for the super-user. [...]
> 
> 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. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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