From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 1 03:54:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA14054 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA14049 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA27986; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:52:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19732; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:33:47 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970801123347.VP07578@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:33:47 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: lioux@gns.com.br (Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira), brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/4195 References: <199708010439.BAA14471@srv1-bsb.gns.com.br> <24804.870410614@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <24804.870410614@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jul 31, 1997 21:43:34 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Yeah, I noticed the mount-point permission propagation issue about 2 > years ago, even filing it as a PR since I thought it was confusing and > bogus, but I was shouted down by many who defended the practice. :-) Not right `defended'. However, it's the typical behaviour for all Unices i've seen so far, with the only exception of Digital Unix who seem to has this fixed. -- 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. ;-)