files recovery after rm?

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <1989Nov10.012648.8942 at rpi.edu> tale at pawl.rpi.edu (David C
Lawrence) writes:
>In <20551 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo at unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes:
>Ken> I am assuming that you use a mask of 700 like I do so that people
>Ken> can't overwrite your files.
>This gets funnier and funnier all the time.  Why would you a) assume
>anything of the sort, b) set your own umask to 700 and c) think that a
>file with 066 (---rw-rw-) permission can't be overwritten by other
>people?

  He didn't say "umask," he said "mask."  Obviously, taking off the
'u' reverses the meaning of the numbers :-).

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