Summary: What SUID, SGID and Sticky bits do on inappropriate files

Boyd Roberts boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au
Wed Feb 6 10:31:17 AEST 1991

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In article <1991Feb4.124123.25558 at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>,
>jmason at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jamie Mason) says:
> ...  And what is mode 000 for?? ...

A `zero mode' creat(2) is a neat atomic operation for non-root users.


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