Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:06:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au Cc: terry@lambert.org, julian@whistle.com, Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fix for symlinks in /tmp (fwd) FYI Message-ID: <199610190706.AAA00388@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <96Oct19.133056%2B1000est.65234-172%2B1149@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au> from "Andrew Tridgell" at Oct 19, 96 01:30:47 pm
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> > 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? No. > Does the t bit really affect group inheritance in BSD? No. The historical behaviour is unaffected. > I'll have to dig out my NetBSD kernel sources soon :-) NetBSD is now 4.4 based, so it's symlinks live in it's directories as well. You'd have to go to ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com to find the Net/2 code to find a BSD that didn't behave as has been described (ie: used files instead of directory entries for the links). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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