From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 19:59:04 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] History of chown semantics In-Reply-To: References: <201401092129.s09LTBBg001272@cuzuco.com> Message-ID: <20140110005904.GE24304@mercury.ccil.org> Clem Cole scripsit: > I just don't see how having the ability to give away a file to some > one else made it easier for anyone - system programmer or admin. All restrictions make things easier for admins: that alone is not a justification for them. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan The peculiar excellence of comedy is its excellent fooling, and Aristophanes's claim to immortality is based upon one title only: he was a master maker of comedy, he could fool excellently. Here Gilbert stands side by side with him. He, too, could write the most admirable nonsense. There has never been better fooling than his, and a comparison with him carries nothing derogatory to the great Athenian. --Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way