Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 17:47:59 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: rbezuide@mikom.csir.co.za (R Bezuidenhout) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Touch and group ig bug ??? Message-ID: <199512211647.RAA15250@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512210857.KAA18187@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "R Bezuidenhout" at Dec 21, 95 10:57:20 am
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As R Bezuidenhout wrote: > > Greetings ... > > I have noticed the following behaviour of FreeBSD 2.1 compared > to UNIX system V. What I'd like to know if this was done > for a reason and if so, why ? It's standard BSD behaviour that new files inherit the group membership of their parent directory. Many non-BSD systems accomplish this by (ab)using the setgid bit in directories. -- 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. ;-)
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