BUG with g+s: Re: "Inherit Permissions" request for comments
David Collier-Brown
David.Collier-Brown at canada.sun.com
Tue Jun 6 11:24:39 GMT 2000
Michael Tokarev wrote:
> But one more thing -- BSD semantics is a bit different than posix
> ones in g+s respect. BSD, as I know of, always inherits group from
> parent dir, so g+s is simple unnecessary there (correct me if I'm
> wrong, I have no BSD around).
That's right: the setgid-on-directories is
a (posix) flag to turn on what bsd considers
"normal" semantics.
--dave
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