> In order to access the system's filesystem information, the Unix
> utility df is a set-id program (one with special privileges). 

Umm, no.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] - /tmp % uname -a
SunOS hummer 5.8 Generic_117350-41 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise Solaris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - /tmp % ls -l `which df`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 153664 2006-06-26 00:29 /usr/local/bin/df

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a
Linux cluon.com 2.6.17.13-RH2021 #8 SMP Fri Sep 15 12:09:19 CDT 2006 i686 i686 
i386 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l  `which df`
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 33852 May  4  2004 /bin/df

-- 
        Lawrence Statton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] s/aba/c/g
Computer  software  consists of  only  two  components: ones  and
zeros, in roughly equal proportions.   All that is required is to
place them into the correct order.





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