From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] v5 and v6 kernel is mode 777
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:50:31 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150222195031.6EA2D18C0DD@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Mark Longridge
> There's no reason for it to be mode 777 is there?
Not that I know of. Once UNIX has booted, it has no use for 'unix' (or
whatever file it booted from), and the boot loader doesn't even read the mode.
I think I habitually set mine to 644. (The 'execute' bits are, of course,
pointless...)
Noel
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-22 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-22 19:50 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2015-02-22 20:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-23 5:31 ` Ed Carp
2015-02-23 18:42 ` scj
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2015-02-22 20:19 Noel Chiappa
2015-02-22 19:36 Mark Longridge
2015-02-22 19:49 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-02-22 20:30 ` Mark Longridge
2015-02-22 19:56 ` Dave Horsfall
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