Re: need to block changes to a file

From	Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>
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> Your requirements are also self-conflicting: you want to "block any 
> changes", but the user "should be able to read/write".
>
That's just down to sloppiness, I expect.  The implication seemed to be 
that the directory should not be world-writable but the file itself 
should be.  More interesting is the requirement that any user be able to 
read, and indeed write to, a file that contains "card details".  (-:

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need to block changes to a file zix <zixenus@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 02:28 -0700
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  Re: need to block changes to a file Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-04-13 18:05 +0000
    Re: need to block changes to a file Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-04-20 18:42 +0100
    Re: need to block changes to a file Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-04-20 12:42 -0600

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