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Re: mkdir() and group id
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Joshua Judson Rosen |
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Re: mkdir() and group id |
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Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:33:06 -0400 |
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:00:44AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
[... Marcus writes about The Hurd's node-creation uses parent-dir's group...]
> One remark is that defaulting to giving it the group id of the
> parent directory makes the sgid flag a bit pointless.
> So it seems to be more featureful to default to giving the gid the
> gid of the process.
That was one of my thoughts when I first came to The Hurd...
> This also will be in line with the popular Linux kernel, so is les
> surprising for many users coming from there
... and I was surprised because I came from Linux....
> , and relieves us from fixing the broken package build scripts (I am
> not sure how many there are. Potentially many, but as long as you
> build as root in root owned directories
or use fakeroot?
> we won't easily notice most of them). I guess we are imitating some
> BSD behaviour here?
> What do modern BSDs do?
Part of my reaction to discovering this `strange' behaviour was to
log into the nearest FreeBSD machine to see whether I was seeing a
Linuxism or a Hurdism--FreeBSD seems to behave as The Hurd does.
I think that I prefer Linux's behaviour.
- mkdir() and group id, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/04/25
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/04/25
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Roland McGrath, 2002/04/25
- Re: mkdir() and group id,
Joshua Judson Rosen <=
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Paul Jarc, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Oystein Viggen, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Paul Jarc, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Paul Jarc, 2002/04/26
- Re: mkdir() and group id, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/04/26