Re: Formatless files
"Liam R. E. Quin" <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 23:02 +0100, Michael Kay wrote: > > . The program needs read and write access to the file, but the user > playing the game must be prohibited from accessing the file directly. On Unix this was traditionally done with a "pseudo-user" - a user account that existed just for the program, e.g. "moo" in this case. It would own the file, and the game would run setuid, which means that regardless of who ran it, the program would run with the effective user-id of "moo", and hence could read the score file. liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php