permissions on swap (UNIXPC)

[Bill Carpenter]

In article <559 at uncle.UUCP> jbm at uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes:

> >brw-r--r--  1 sys     sys       0,  1 Jan  1  1970 /dev/swap

> Yes, it is a hole, no it nee$ not be readable

I'm sure what JBM meant was that it need not be world readable.  Some
folks reading this may not be aware that the "ps" command needs to
read /dev/swap on many occasions and runs setGid "sys" on the UNIXpc.

A perm of 640 would be okay, for example, but not 600.
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