Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:55:23 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com> Subject: Re: Making inheritance of group ID configurable Message-ID: <20040209175523.GA1359@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <20040209164511.GB66276@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20040209161059.GA732@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <20040209164511.GB66276@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Mon, 09-Feb-2004 at 16:45:11 +0000, David Malone wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:10:59PM +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > New items created on an ufs normally inherit their group ID from > > the parent directory. I have the need for making this configurable. > > > > Since the set-group-ID bit is not used for directories on BSD, > > I would like to use it to decide on this: If it is set, the group > > ID of the newly created item corresponds to the one of the creating > > process. (Yeah, this is exactly the wrong way around compared to > > what "the Others" do but I don't want to change the BSD default). > > Would making this a filesystem option be a good idea? You could > have the default behaviour be as always and an option that makes > the filesystem behave as you've described. Possibly. I intentionally didn't suggest this since I wanted to attract people to the technical aspects (and the correctness) of the patch and not to the political opinions :-). -Andre > > David. -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
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