Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 13:30:47 +1000 From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: julian@whistle.com, Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fix for symlinks in /tmp (fwd) FYI Message-ID: <96Oct19.133056%2B1000est.65234-172%2B1149@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199610190242.TAA02619@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:42:03 -0700 (MST))
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Terry wrote: > Actually, PSIX does mandate sticky bit behaviour in directories. sure, but does it mandate that the rules for when a user can follow a symlink? That doesn't sound like a POSIX thing to me, more of a "tradition" thing. I could easily be wrong :-) Does anyone on the CC list have the relevant POSIX docs handy? > The historical BSD behavior is group inheritance, actually, totally > unrelated to the behaviour needed for the bug (I think). Hmmm, I thought group inheritance was controlled by the setgid bit on directories? Does the t bit really affect group inheritance in BSD? I'll have to dig out my NetBSD kernel sources soon :-) Cheers, Andrew
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