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Date:      Sat, 6 May 95 22:51:53 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        dunser@msmailgw.sdsmt.edu
Subject:   Re: 950412-SNAP
Message-ID:  <9505070451.AA27293@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199505070248.EAA06338@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 7, 95 04:48:47 am

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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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