From: Stephen DOT Marley AT memex DOT com (Stephen Marley)
Subject: Re: NT extended attributes
19 Oct 1998 15:48:19 -0700
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On 18 October 1998, David Bush wrote:
>  > In Unix you can't change the ownership of a file to someone else, even
>  > if you are the actual owner.
>  > 
> Actually it depends on the version of Unix.  Solaris has a kernel
> parameter that determines if that behavior is allowed or not.

Not being able to give away files (unless you are root) is a BSDish
thing, System V used to allow it. The rationale for BSD is that you'd be
able to circumvent the quota mechanism for restricting disk usage if you
could just gave your files away.

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