Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:08:52 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>
Subject:   Re: Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?
Message-ID:  <xzpeko8koa3.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200406221659.31501.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> (Daniel O'Connor's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:59:31 %2B0930")
References:  <20040617205549.GA19254@lava.net> <xzpisdkkqru.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200406221659.31501.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> I think he wanted to use sticky/sgid/suid because they get removed when t=
he
> file is changed

no they don't.

>                 so the application can go back and see if they've been
> changed. That doesn't happen to attributes.
>
> Also, I don't think attributes work over NFS(?)

they should, at least with v4.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzpeko8koa3.fsf>