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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM, pst@shockwave.com
Subject: Re: kern/679
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>Let's go with whatever POSIX says and be done with it.

Implementation-defined for root.

>  From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
>  Subject: Re: kern/679 
>  >Synopsis: chown(2) ignores set-user-id and set-group-id bits for root
>  >
>  >This looks appropriate to me and is more in line with the UNIX standard.
>  >
>  >Peter - would you care to verify my opinion before this is changed?
>  
>  I tend to agree.  "Root knows what he's doing" is a pretty fundamental
>  design "feature".  I have personally used this on a few occasions and I
>  was pleasantly suprised to find that it did what I wanted.  (like it does
>  on SVR4, unlike what it did on SCO which always reset the bits.)
>  
>  I think we should change the man page to document the behavior, unless
>  there's a major disagreement from somebody.

I agree with Peter but Peter disagreed with the change.

Bruce