Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Bug in Ultrix2.0? Message-ID: <16788@topaz.rutgers.edu> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 15:36:53 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.16788 Posted: Wed Dec 2 15:36:53 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 14:18:12 EST References: <10617@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 7 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