Cat permissions
Igor Peshansky
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Sun Jul 20 20:30:00 GMT 2008
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:55:38AM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> >The cat does not have permission to shred upholstery.
> >
> >The cat does not have permission to sleep on my PC, dropping hair into
> >its power supply.
> >
> >The cat does not have permission to be in the kitchen. Ever.
> >
> >The cat does not have permission to stand at the heels of people who
> >wish to walk backwards.
>
> I'm sorry but I don't think any of the above is POSIX compliant. You
> seem to have messed with your cat configuration. POSIX dictates much
> more permissive cat access.
Besides, isn't cat always supposed to open things in binary mode?
Igor
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