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Subject: Re: Bug in Ultrix2.0?
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Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 15:36:53 EST
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Unlike older UNICES and SYSTEM V, the BSD directories are managed by
atomic system calls that any user can execute.  Other UNIX systems
require you to run setuid root programs that very carefully use
mknod, link, and unlink to set up the directories and their . and
.. entries.

-Ron