Subject: Re: Permissions on directories.
To: Shyeah right. What am I gonna do with a gun rack? <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/20/1998 07:58:10
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Shyeah right.  What am I gonna do with a gun rack? wrote:

: 	- setgid on a directory supposedly makes any file/directory
: 	  creation inherit the gid of the directory in which it is
: 	  created, otherwise it (supposedly) inherits the gid of the
: 	  process which created it.

...Yet BSD gives the "setgid" behavior _all_ the time.  I'd certainly perfer
this to be an option, as SVR4's method of using the real user's gid sounds
more sane to me.

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