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To: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/679 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Feb 1996 12:13:53 +0800."
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 21:11:50 -0800
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Let's go with whatever POSIX says and be done with it.

  From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
  Subject: Re: kern/679 
  >Synopsis: chown(2) ignores set-user-id and set-group-id bits for root
  >
  >This looks appropriate to me and is more in line with the UNIX standard.
  >
  >Peter - would you care to verify my opinion before this is changed?
  
  I tend to agree.  "Root knows what he's doing" is a pretty fundamental
  design "feature".  I have personally used this on a few occasions and I
  was pleasantly suprised to find that it did what I wanted.  (like it does
  on SVR4, unlike what it did on SCO which always reset the bits.)
  
  I think we should change the man page to document the behavior, unless
  there's a major disagreement from somebody.
  
  Cheers,
  -Peter