An idea probably discarded many times

Tom Christiansen tchrist at convex.COM
Fri Oct 27 14:48:02 AEST 1989


In article <3495 at zorba.Tynan.COM> larry at macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek) writes:
>Processes in Unix are alot like files though, they have user and
>group permissions just like files.

untrue.  process groups are more analogous to directory sub-trees than
to group id's.

--tom

    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist at convex.COM
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