On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
There's
no reason for it to be mode 777 is there?
Not that I know of. Once UNIX has booted, it has no use for 'unix' (or
whatever file it booted from), and the boot loader doesn't even read the
mode.
Didn't "ps" try and read its symbol table? I had fun days when I booted,
say, "/unix.new", and "ps" wouldn't sodding work...
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