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Date:      Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:49:31 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?P=C3=A9tur?= Ingi Egilsson <petur@petur.eu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>
Subject:   Re: File descriptors
Message-ID:  <86sj2tcoxg.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <000A44DA-4A24-48C8-A4B2-EE9473A03C38@petur.eu> (=?utf-8?Q?=22P=C3=A9tur?= Ingi Egilsson"'s message of "Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:48:28 %2B0200")
References:  <B4285FA7-E3EF-4639-BFC0-9BEA7881A5CB@petur.eu> <5169F961.7030407@erdgeist.org> <000A44DA-4A24-48C8-A4B2-EE9473A03C38@petur.eu>

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P=C3=A9tur Ingi Egilsson <petur@petur.eu> writes:
> The general understanding by users,

I think you mean *your* understanding, unless you have actually
conducted a poll of a representative sample of *nix users.

> be it right or wrong, is that whenever a files' permission is changed,
> then the effect is immediate everywhere in the system.

This has never been the case.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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