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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
References: <CCyLF6.n6@kithrup.com> <322@rook.ukc.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <CCzu78.DJD@kithrup.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 17:06:30 GMT
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In article <322@rook.ukc.ac.uk> dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear) writes:
>That's true BSD file creation semantics 

"true BSD file creation semantics" are broken.  If I cannot do

	chgrp bin foo

without being in group bin, why is foo going to be in group bin depending
on where I create it?

At least the SGID bit is somewhat intuitive (since SGID means, inheiret
the group id, for processes; it is just extended for directories and
files, now).