[EMAIL PROTECTED] (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.) _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
