On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Todd Vierling wrote:

> This is a weirdness that's partly 4.4BSD's fault.  New files in directories
> are created with the group-id of that directory, which is IMHO a bad idea.

To tell you the truth, I find this terribly convenient. It makes
it a lot easier to share files with varying groups of people without
checking and changing ownership all the time.

cjs

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