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Re: Setuid file

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From: matthew green
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:21
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flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:

>jon@hill.lut.ac.uk (Jon P. Knight) writes:
>>>: |    -rwsr-xr-x  1 root            0 Apr  7  1992 file
>                                       ^
>>
>>Still, if you don't know what it is, back it up and then delete it. 
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^

>(chuckle) he already has backed it up, an infinite number of times

Forgive me if I'm wrong..  but doesn't this imply infinite storage ?
I mean, you need to story the directory entry as well as the file
don't you?

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