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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:28:18 +1000 (EST)
From:      andrew@ugh.net.au
To:        Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File creation using non-member group!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004261225240.78522-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004250942330.64330-100000@ren.sasknow.com>

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ryan Thompson wrote:

> Just noticed that on one of my accounts the real gid of the user is not
> being used in file creation (non-setgid/sticky directory, of course!)  Id

The setgid on directories is a SysV thing. BSD systems IIRC set the group
of a new file to the group of the owning directory. See chmod(2) and APUE
for more discussion.

Andrew



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