Subject: Re: protection bits
To: Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/12/1998 09:59:55
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 02:58:21AM -0500, Mike Long wrote:
> >Errr... does this mean NetBSD isn't posix compliant, then?  If the group
> >bits deny access, but other bits allow access, NetBSD denies access to
> >the file.
> 
> No, because if the process belongs to the file group class *only*
> those permission bits apply.  Owner and other bits are irrelevant.
> The classes are defined such that the process can belong to only one
> of them at any given time.

Oh, okay.  Yeah, now that you said it, that's what the standard appears to
say, as well. ;)

  -jm