On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:54:58PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Elias Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > # ls -ld . f > > drwxr-xr-x 3 pipping staff 11186 Jan 26 12:29 . > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2 Jan 26 12:29 f > > # ./cp f g > > # ls -l g > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2 Jan 26 12:29 g > > That suggests that the bogus group is set by cp's open call. I suspect > some sort of ACL mechanism that specifies "staff" as the default group -- > or maybe some rule says "inherit group from parent directory".
The latter seems to be the case.
> Do you see the same behavior if you run those commands in /tmp?
> (in place of "./", you'll need "/abs/path-to/coreutils-6.10/src/")
# pwd
/tmp
# /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.10/src/id -a
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),1(daemon),8(procview),
2(kmem),29(certusers),3(sys),9(procmod),4(tty),
102(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),5(operator),80(admin),20(staff),
101(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1)
# /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.10/src/rm -rf f g
# echo a > f
# /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.10/src/chown +0:+0 f
# ls -ld . f
drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 374 Jan 26 15:10 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2 Jan 26 15:10 f
# /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.10/src/cp f g
# ls -l g
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2 Jan 26 15:11 g
#
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