Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 07:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/7504: sgid bit on directories undocumented in chmod(1) and umask... Message-ID: <199808061440.HAA10175@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/7504; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Subject: Re: docs/7504: sgid bit on directories undocumented in chmod(1) and umask... Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:33:25 -0400 On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 09:00:01AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: > The chmod manpage only describes that it's possible to > set the s-bit for the directory owner, but it's also > possible to set the s bit of a directory, so that files > created in this directory get the GID of the directory > group and not the GID of the person who created the file. But... you describe the normal behavior of directories under BSD, regardless of the g+s bit! Been hanging out in SysV land too much these days? :-) flarn:~/tmp$ mkdir spoo flarn:~/tmp$ ls -ld spoo drwxrwxr-x 2 mph mph 512 Aug 6 10:31 spoo flarn:~/tmp$ touch spoo/fresh flarn:~/tmp$ ls -l spoo total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mph mph 0 Aug 6 10:32 fresh flarn:~/tmp$ chown :wheel spoo flarn:~/tmp$ touch spoo/daily flarn:~/tmp$ ls -l spoo total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mph wheel 0 Aug 6 10:32 daily -rw-rw-r-- 1 mph mph 0 Aug 6 10:32 fresh -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Inertia is a property of matter. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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