Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 11:13:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Bug: 2.1.0: chmod +s Message-ID: <199605040913.LAA21832@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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After some discussion with Brian about the usefulness of allowing ``chmod +s foo'': ----- Forwarded message from Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account ----- Ok, that makes sense, but I really think that if you are going to ignore user input, you should at least complain about it. (Maybe "+s ambiguous; use (u|g|ug)+s") ----- End of forwarded message from Brian T. Schellenberger What do people think of this? If nobody objects, i would commit some change like this one. (Reminder for those who didn't follow the previous discussion: chmod +s is a do-nothing in 4.4BSD, while it's a chmod ug+s in some other systems. I consider the latter dangerous to the innocent, and Posix doesn't seem to be very specific about it 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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