at files and permissions

[Peter da Silva]

In article <8092 at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
[no disk quotas in V.3]
> I said:
>    ...BSD allows only root to change file ownership.

> In article <4884 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > I certainly hope that V.4 doesn't have this *bogus* restriction.

> I doubt that it will need to.

I hope you're right. But remember that V.4 is supposed to be V.3+BSD.

Does anyone here really know what sort of crud V.4 (not V.3) is going to
have in it? Streams *and* sockets, or so I hear...
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