Retaining file permissions

[Ozan Yigit]

In article <see ref> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>  You must have a pretty strange version of cat on your system, or a
>brain-damaged kernel that does not clear the setuid bit when a file is written
>to.

Any file, or just those files that are also executable?

>If that
>isn't in the standard, then the standard is broken; then again, we already
>knew that, so it isn't a surprise.

Really? How about a list of all those things you already knew to be
broken in the standard? I am much interested.

oz
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