Oystein Viggen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The difference is that the SysV way won't work for more than one level > of directories. Once you start making dirs within dirs[1], your sgid is > not inherited, and group ownership falls back to your default group, > instead of what you want.
False. $ mkdir foo $ ls -ld foo drwxr-xr-x 2 prj default 48 Apr 26 13:46 foo $ chown :prj foo $ chmod g+s foo $ ls -ld foo drwxr-sr-x 2 prj prj 48 Apr 26 13:46 foo $ mkdir foo/bar $ ls -ld foo/bar drwxr-sr-x 2 prj prj 48 Apr 26 13:46 foo/bar $ mkdir foo/bar/baz $ ls -ld foo/bar/baz drwxr-sr-x 2 prj prj 48 Apr 26 13:46 foo/bar/baz $ mkdir foo/bar/baz/quux $ ls -ld foo/bar/baz/quux drwxr-sr-x 2 prj prj 48 Apr 26 13:49 foo/bar/baz/quux Tested on Linux and Solaris. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd