From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 4 02:22:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA16190 for current-outgoing; Sat, 4 May 1996 02:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA16176 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 02:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA14643 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 11:21:46 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA09723 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 4 May 1996 11:21:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA21832 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 4 May 1996 11:13:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605040913.LAA21832@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Bug: 2.1.0: chmod +s To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 11:13:09 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)