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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. References: <CCyLF6.n6@kithrup.com> <322@rook.ukc.ac.uk> Message-ID: <CCzu78.DJD@kithrup.com> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 17:06:30 GMT Lines: 14 In article <322@rook.ukc.ac.uk> dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear) writes: >That's true BSD file creation semantics "true BSD file creation semantics" are broken. If I cannot do chgrp bin foo without being in group bin, why is foo going to be in group bin depending on where I create it? At least the SGID bit is somewhat intuitive (since SGID means, inheiret the group id, for processes; it is just extended for directories and files, now).