NT extended attributes
Michael Hirmke
mh@mike.franken.de
Tue Oct 20 20:51:00 GMT 1998
Hi Stephen,
[...]
>> Actually it depends on the version of Unix. Solaris has a kernel
>> parameter that determines if that behavior is allowed or not.
>
>Not being able to give away files (unless you are root) is a BSDish
>thing, System V used to allow it. The rationale for BSD is that you'd be
>able to circumvent the quota mechanism for restricting disk usage if you
>could just gave your files away.
On Linux it isn't possible, too.
>
>--
>stephen@memex.com
Bye.
Michael.
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