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SubjectRe: Improving the Unix API y,
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:

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> As for the opening with no permissions - well, it would make *big* sense
> if we could narrow down the API and move chown(), chmod(), etc. into libc
> leaving f-variants in the kernel. Binary compatibility... Extreme variant
> might include {set,get}sockopt extended to files and doing both *stat and
> *ch{mod,own,flags} via that. Out of curiosity - did somebody on *BSD side
> play with that?
>

Actually, instead of *big* sense, that makes *no* sense.

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