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Date:      Tue, 20 May 1997 11:14:05 +0200
From:      lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (Hr.Ladavac)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sec@42.org
Subject:   Re: RFC.. Proposal.. file flag No-delete
Message-ID:  <199705200914.LAA20550@ws6423.gud.siemens.at>

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> From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 19:31:13 MET 1997
> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> From: sec@42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl)
> Subject: Re: RFC.. Proposal.. file flag No-delete
> Date: 17 May 1997 19:19:18 +0200
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> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
> 
> In article <337B4E06.1B37ADEA@whistle.com>, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > I think giving SGID the same mening relative to group for directories
> > > as the sticky bit is a much less intrusive change than the "delete"
> > > change.
> > > 
> > Isn't there a normal use for SUID and SGID fro directories?
> > I've been racking my brains and can't think of one,
> > except that SOME systems use SGID on a dir to mean "Do not inherrit
> > group from this directory"
> 
> On HP-UX SUID Directorys are used for their CDF's (Context dependet Files)
> which is a strange but funny concept (i like it though)
> resulting in a normal directory to be hidden if you chmod u+s it

Please talk in Past Tense.  No CDF since HP-UX 10.
But they were mighty useful and allowed various architectures under the same
OS to share the same directory structure.  Now, Moto HPUX is dead => no CDF.

/Marino
> 
> CU,
> 	Sec
> -- 
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