non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR]

As quoted from <1990Dec11.102433.10999 at kithrup.COM> by sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan):
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| In article <1990Dec09.043647.25826 at iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl at iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
| >It seems to me that the only plausible way to charge for space is to assign
| >charge responsibility for each directory (with the default being that a
| >directory is charged to the same user as its parent, so you only have to list
| >users' home directories) and to add up the sizes of the files in all of s
| >user's directory, charging 1/Nth of the blocks in an N block file, rounded up.
| 
| Sounds good.  I'll just put everything in /tmp.
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I assume the semantics of a sticky directory would be expanded to cover this,
thus catching tmp files and mailboxes....

++Brandon
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