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

Tue Feb 5 07:04:01 AEST 1991

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?? ...

Testing the error traps in programs that expect
some file/directory to be always readable/writable.
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