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Re: The st_author field.


From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Subject: Re: The st_author field.
Date: 17 Feb 2002 11:35:03 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

> What is the idea behind adding the st_author field in the stat structure?
> And what it supposed to be used for?

It is to be used to indicate the original author of the data in the
file; that is, tools like ld, cc, cp, and the like, are supposed to
preserve it when writing new files.  (Because they set the *owner* to
the person making the copy/derivative, but the author should get
kept.)





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