From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:50:31 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] v5 and v6 kernel is mode 777
Message-ID: <20150222195031.6EA2D18C0DD@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > 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