From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 15:50:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22587 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net (relay-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA22576 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:50:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from erlenstar.demon.co.uk ([194.222.144.22]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa1028714; 15 May 97 19:57 BST Received: (from andrew@localhost) by erlenstar.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA24361; Thu, 15 May 1997 19:57:40 +0100 (BST) To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC.. Proposal.. file flag No-delete References: <199705151646.JAA14975@phaeton.artisoft.com> <337B4E06.1B37ADEA@whistle.com> From: Andrew Gierth In-Reply-To: Julian Elischer's message of Thu, 15 May 1997 10:55:19 -0700 X-Mayan-Date: Long count = 12.19.4.2.19; tzolkin = 10 Cauac; haab = 17 Uo X-Attribution: AG Date: 15 May 1997 19:57:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87n2pw7ecc.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer writes: Julian> except that SOME systems use SGID on a dir to mean "Do not inherrit Julian> group from this directory" Just about every single non-BSD Unix uses SGID to mean *DO* inherit group from the directory. I think this is even in the X/Open specs. -- Andrew.