Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what

[Philip Webb]

981008 Thomas Dickey wrote: 
> to find out who does own things, you can use 'ls':
> eg  cd /  ls -lad .  cd /homes  ls -lad .  cd /homes/purslow  ls -lad .

the result of those commands is:

drwxr-xr-x   32 root     sys         1024 Sep 30 12:28 .
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     sys        99328 Oct  6 17:24 .
drwx--x--x    9 purslow  user         512 Oct  7 15:36 .

> lxstat(2, "/homes/purslow", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0755, st_size=18, ...}) = 0

what is  lxstat() ?  ie is it in Lynx or part of the shell/kernel/what ?
my reward for laboring at a problem caused -- inadvertently, i know --
on behalf of people running anonymous sites
-- see Archive Sep [445 622 769] Aug [11] --
is to learn more about how UNIX & related software work ...

I (capitalised for once) have no security problem,
nor do the majority of Lynx users & installers:
these problems arise ONLY for sites with anonymous users.
IMHO NO-ONE should allow anonymous users at a site with non-anonymous users;
better still, site managers should set up free shell userids
for people with valid library/student/etc cards:
miscreants can then be identified & expelled.

so back to solving the Lynx code problem ... (smile).

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