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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:50:06 +0200 (MEST)
From: Walter Hofmann <snwahofm@mi.uni-erlangen.de>
To: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote:

> >Any idea?
> 
> Sure - very simple. If the execute bit is set on a file, don't allow
> ANY write to the file. This does modify the permission bits slightly
> but I don't think it is an unreasonable thing to have.

And how exactly does this help?

fchmod (fd, 0666);
fwrite (fd, ...);
fchmod (fd, 0777);

Walter

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