Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 01:20:05 -0700 (PDT) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/4418: Sticky directories change file group Message-ID: <199709060820.BAA02481@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/4418; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: dbx@atmos.washington.edu Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/4418: Sticky directories change file group Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 09:33:52 +0200 As dbx@atmos.washington.edu wrote: > If a directory has a sticky bit set, it will change the group ownership > of any file created in that directory to the group owning the directory. Any file created anywhere in a BSD filesystem will get the group ownership of the parent directory. This is done on purpose, and is often referred to as the BSD group semantics. Posix allows for this as an option. What you've seen on some other systems is that they by default follow the SysV semantics, and emulate the BSD semantics if the sgid bit is set on the parent directory. *BSD doesn't allow for an emultion of the SysV semantics at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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