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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:50:33 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        robin@intercore.com (Robin Cutshaw)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.0 SNAP+SMP permission problems 
Message-ID:  <199701241950.LAA01817@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:23:36 EST." <199701241423.JAA01954@intercore.com> 

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>I just loaded the 3.0 SNAP and added SMP.  When I create a file in /tmp,
>it gets the wrong owner/group.  Here's a sample:
>
>
>free2cpu:util $ id
>uid=10290(robin) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff), 0(wheel)
>free2cpu:util $ ln -s . /tmp/XXX
>free2cpu:util $ ls -l /tmp/XXX
>lrwxrwxrwt  1 bin  bin  1 Jan 24 04:25 /tmp/XXX -> .
>free2cpu:util $ rm /tmp/XXX
>rm: /tmp/XXX: Operation not permitted
>free2cpu:util $ touch /tmp/xxx
>free2cpu:util $ ls -l /tmp/xxx
>-rw-rw-r--  1 robin  bin  0 Jan 24 04:26 /tmp/xxx

   That's a "feature" of 4.4BSD and has nothing to do with SMP. The symlink
takes on the ownership/permissions of the directory it is created it. NetBSD
already reverted to the historic behavior, and we should, too.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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