>> Is there any reason that the special directory entry could not
>> retain the uid & gid for this special case of inode data?
> Yes.  If I own the directory, I can then create symlinks and edit my
> directory file to give the link away to anyone I want to.

How?  Not even root can write directly to a directory.

					der Mouse

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