On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:57:44AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I think that I prefer Linux's behaviour. > > > > I think, too, esp because of the sgid flag. I wonder what Thomas thinks. > > The reason why the copy-gid-from directory behavior is better: > > Imagine a rich set of groups on your computer--representing protection > domains for actual groups of actual people. > > A given project might be group "foobie", and all the people working on > that project are in the group. They use a umask of 002. Everything > works Just Great! Because when they create files or directories > inside the project, they automatically have the *group* set to > "foobie", even though the primary egid of the user might be > "user-category-6" or something like that.
Isn't that what the sgid flag allows you to do if you want it? I see how this behaviour is useful, but I don't see why it is better to only have the sgid behaviour if you can have both, sgid or non-sgid behaviour, and choose for any given directory what you want. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd