Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:10:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC.. Proposal.. file flag No-delete Message-ID: <199705151810.LAA15326@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <337B4E06.1B37ADEA@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at May 15, 97 10:55:19 am
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> > How about this instead, then? > > > > 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" Actually, it was "*DO* inherit group from this directory", I thought. This went out with POSIX, and has been gone from BSD for a while, as far as I can tell. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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