From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:49:27 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] v5 and v6 kernel is mode 777
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Your ls is missing a set of perms (-rwxrwxrwx).

No it should not be 777.    It needs to be readable because certain programs in user mode read the symbol table.