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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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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.

	David.