On Mon, 09-Feb-2004 at 16:45:11 +0000, David Malone wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:10:59PM +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > New items created on an ufs normally inherit their group ID from > > the parent directory. I have the need for making this configurable. > > > > Since the set-group-ID bit is not used for directories on BSD, > > I would like to use it to decide on this: If it is set, the group > > ID of the newly created item corresponds to the one of the creating > > process. (Yeah, this is exactly the wrong way around compared to > > what "the Others" do but I don't want to change the BSD default). > > Would making this a filesystem option be a good idea? You could > have the default behaviour be as always and an option that makes > the filesystem behave as you've described.
Possibly. I intentionally didn't suggest this since I wanted to attract people to the technical aspects (and the correctness) of the patch and not to the political opinions :-). -Andre > > David. -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"