Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:45:11 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making inheritance of group ID configurable Message-ID: <20040209164511.GB66276@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20040209161059.GA732@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <20040209161059.GA732@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
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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.
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