From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 11:18:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05251 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA05241 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:17:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA15326; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:10:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705151810.LAA15326@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: RFC.. Proposal.. file flag No-delete To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:10:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <337B4E06.1B37ADEA@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at May 15, 97 10:55:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How about this instead, then? > > > > I think giving SGID the same mening relative to group for directories > > as the sticky bit is a much less intrusive change than the "delete" > > change. > > Isn't there a normal use for SUID and SGID fro directories? > I've been racking my brains and can't think of one, > except that SOME systems use SGID on a dir to mean "Do not inherrit > group from this directory" Actually, it was "*DO* inherit group from this directory", I thought. This went out with POSIX, and has been gone from BSD for a while, as far as I can tell. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.