On 14/02/2015 00:05, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Trust me, there is no arguing with this - Unix has always worked this >> > way and likely always will. > :-) I ask myself, how come I've got this far without learning this > pretty basic fact? > > Thanks for the explanation. >
:-) Don't feel too bad, it's one of my favourite geeky Unix trivia factoid questions. In 10 years, no-one yet has given the correct answer immediately! It's also very rare to have a file owned by root in a user directory, and even rarer for the user to spot the oddity. Most folks just don;t need to know that level of detail -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
