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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!sunic!ugle.unit.no!flipper.pvv.unit.no!imf.unit.no!arnej From: arnej@imf.unit.no (Arne Henrik Juul) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation Date: 7 Sep 93 12:45:07 Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology Lines: 15 Message-ID: <ARNEJ.93Sep7124507@khym.imf.unit.no> References: <CCyLF6.n6@kithrup.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: khym.imf.unit.no In-reply-to: sef@kithrup.com's message of 7 Sep 93 00:59:14 GMT In article <CCyLF6.n6@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: > *I* consider this a bug. It exists in every Net/2-derived system I could > play with, including BSD4.4. When creating a file, the gid given to the > file is the gid of the directory it is in, and not the gid of the process > creating the file. The following patch fixes that; it will only use the > gid of the directory if the directory's SGID bit is set. As far as I know, this is mandated by the FIPS "profile" to Posix 1003.1, and is intentional in every BSD since 4.3 at least. I don't have my copy of posix around, but maybe some of the experts know offhand. - Arne H. Juul