Unix files should have both real and effective ids for files too
Neil Rickert
rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu
Wed Dec 12 00:09:29 AEST 1990
In article <PCG.90Dec10191750 at odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg at cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>
>Files should be like processes and have BOTH an effective and a real
>user id. Accounting would be based on the real id, and protection on the
>effective id.
>
And next thing we will want processes to have a real real id, an
effective real id, a real effective id and an effective effective id.
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Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
Northern Illinois Univ.
DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940
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