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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!rrz.uni-koeln.de!news-rhrz!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst From: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation Sender: news@work1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (News-Admin) Message-ID: <GMT07Sep.93.34239@work1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 10:53:22 GMT Lines: 29 Reply-To: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de References: <CCyLF6.n6@kithrup.com> <CCz5n2.9v7@pilhuhn.sub.org> Organization: Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn In article <CCz5n2.9v7@pilhuhn.sub.org>, hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: >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. DG/UX 5.4.2 (a SVR4) creates new files with the GID of the process if there's no SGID bit set for the directory. Otherwise the SGID for directories would be useless. I think Sean Eric Fagan is right. Henry > >-- >Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 D-76131 Karlsruhe +49 721 9661521 >In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extrcted by the > latest Methodists. > -- juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.12] (internet) juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.30] Any opinions in this mail are my own.