Fix for Samba server masking world writeable perm off
Alexander Bokovoy
ab at samba.org
Wed Feb 27 07:42:52 UTC 2019
On ti, 26 helmi 2019, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 08:18:43PM +0200, Alexander Bokovoy via samba-technical wrote:
>
> > This is just fine. I can pretend I knew it but in reality I just love
> > archeology so much that I was able to dig it up on request. :)
>
> In Vernor Vinge's wonderful SciFi novel "A Deepness in the Sky"
> (set over 10,000+ years from now) there is a career of "Programmer
> Acheologist" whose job it was to dig up old code and make it
> useful on "modern" systems :-).
Isn't it what we do every day? :)
> Plus in the book they still use unix time_t (now 64-bit :-),
> but they think it dates from when man first landed on the
> moon, as they've lost quite a few details of "ancient" times :-).
Too bad they are -14182980 off then. ;)
Thanks for the book reference!
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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