Pétur Ingi Egilsson <pe...@petur.eu> writes:
> The general understanding by users,

I think you mean *your* understanding, unless you have actually
conducted a poll of a representative sample of *nix users.

> be it right or wrong, is that whenever a files' permission is changed,
> then the effect is immediate everywhere in the system.

This has never been the case.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no
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