On Aug 17 00:09:37, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011, Stefan Johnson wrote: > > > On most of the unix / unix-like systems I support, this behavior would be > > different. The file would be created with user_a:group_a (since group_a is > > the primary group.) This is true on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX per my > > testing earlier today. On Tru64 and OpenBSD, the group ownership seems > > to be inherited by the parent directory rather than set by the user's > > primary group > > membership. For AIX et.al. the "setgid" bit on the parent directory would > > change > > the behavior such that files created inside that directory would be owned by > > the > > parent directory group owner regardless of user's primary group membership. > > > > It appears that OpenBSD (and Tru64) treat the directory as setgid (when > > compared to the other OSes) but it is not. > > BSD derived systems always have the setgid directory behavior.
Including this Mac OS 10.5.8 here (as it was not yet mentioned).
