Re: nodes have authors

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:30:36PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> I am currently working on adding some support for the flags that we support.

Way to go, Alfred!

> author bit with chown (chown owner:group:author?), and will probably implement
> the chauth (I think thats a better name then chauthor) program.

As we have addauth, setauth, rmauth in the Hurd with a completely different
meaning, I'd say that chauth is a not a good name for that.

> And when I am done with that, I will move to fix GNU sh-utils (id,
> and all that).

Note that we have `ids' in the Hurd.  And id is specified by POSIX, so we have
to make sure we only extend it (if we do), and not break compatibility.

> Note, I used => instead of the normal -> to show that it is really different.

I like it.  If you want a reference implementation, see utils/showtrans.c of
course.  Do you want to handle active translators, too?

Thanks,
Marcus

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