Re: The st_author field.

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

> What is the idea behind adding the st_author field in the stat structure?
> And what it supposed to be used for?

It is to be used to indicate the original author of the data in the
file; that is, tools like ld, cc, cp, and the like, are supposed to
preserve it when writing new files.  (Because they set the *owner* to
the person making the copy/derivative, but the author should get
kept.)