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From: hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation
References: <CCyLF6.n6@kithrup.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 08:16:13 GMT
Organization: The home of the Pilhuhn
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sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>*I* consider this a bug. It exists in every Net/2-derived system I could
>play with, including BSD4.4. When creating a file, the gid given to the
>file is the gid of the directory it is in, and not the gid of the process
>creating the file. The following patch fixes that; it will only use the
>gid of the directory if the directory's SGID bit is set.
If I remember right, this is a feature of all BSD-derived systems, so
I wouldn't change this.
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