From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 17 10:19:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02658 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 May 1997 10:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matrix.42.org (sec@matrix.42.org [192.68.213.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA02653 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 10:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA08428; Sat, 17 May 1997 19:19:19 +0200 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Path: sec From: sec@42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: RFC.. Proposal.. file flag No-delete Date: 17 May 1997 19:19:18 +0200 Organization: Internet@home Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <199705151646.JAA14975@phaeton.artisoft.com> <337B4E06.1B37ADEA@whistle.com> X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-2 BETA UNIX) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <337B4E06.1B37ADEA@whistle.com>, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I think giving SGID the same mening relative to group for directories > > as the sticky bit is a much less intrusive change than the "delete" > > change. > > > Isn't there a normal use for SUID and SGID fro directories? > I've been racking my brains and can't think of one, > except that SOME systems use SGID on a dir to mean "Do not inherrit > group from this directory" On HP-UX SUID Directorys are used for their CDF's (Context dependet Files) which is a strange but funny concept (i like it though) resulting in a normal directory to be hidden if you chmod u+s it CU, Sec -- Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt, Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling Error 0: No error