Re: BUG: deny_access

[str@gondolin.nasim.cube.net (Steffen Ries)]

> > MiNT allows root to do _everything_, even to execute files which are
> > not executable. This behaviour is not shared by other unices (SunOS,
> > linux, etc.) which allow root read and write access, but deny
> > executional rights.

> 	Not so. Assuming youare restoring from backup, just as I have,
> and your tar does not set the execute bit on any file. You can't run
> chmod to fix it, so how do you it?

You have a broken tar and want to fix it in the kernel? ;^)

> According to the Unix canon, permission and protection
> _do_not_exist_ for the superuser. He or she can do anything they
> like (even if it's really wrong and dumb)

This may be true according to the canon, but for the implementations I
have checked, it is not so. (should MiNT follow the canon or the
`real' world?)

cu, Steffen