On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:18:41PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: > >What I ask now is: is this a bug or a feature? > > Both, I think :)
Or none, just different implementation of the same open() function complying with the Open Group Base Specifications ;-) Quotting http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/open.html ----------------8<------------------------------------------------------ O_CREAT [...] the file shall be created; the user ID of the file shall be set to the effective user ID of the process; the group ID of the file shall be set to the group ID of the file's parent directory or to the effective group ID of the process [...] Implementations shall provide a way to initialize the file's group ID to the group ID of the parent directory. Implementations may, but need not, provide an implementation-defined way to initialize the file's group ID to the effective group ID of the calling process. [...] The POSIX.1-1990 standard required that the group ID of a newly created file be set to the group ID of its parent directory or to the effective group ID of the creating process. FIPS 151-2 required that implementations provide a way to have the group ID be set to the group ID of the containing directory, but did not prohibit implementations also supporting a way to set the group ID to the effective group ID of the creating process. Conforming applications should not assume which group ID will be used. If it matters, an application can use chown() to set the group ID after the file is created, or determine under what conditions the implementation will set the desired group ID. ----------------8<------------------------------------------------------ This being said, two different behaviour on the same system, even if you « should not assume which group ID will be used », is kind of weird. -- Romain Tartière <rom...@blogreen.org> http://romain.blogreen.org/ pgp: 8DAB A124 0DA4 7024 F82A E748 D8E9 A33F FF56 FF43 (ID: 0xFF56FF43) (plain text =non-HTML= PGP/GPG encrypted/signed e-mail much appreciated)
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