On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:00:44AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: [... Marcus writes about The Hurd's node-creation uses parent-dir's group...]
> One remark is that defaulting to giving it the group id of the > parent directory makes the sgid flag a bit pointless. > So it seems to be more featureful to default to giving the gid the > gid of the process. That was one of my thoughts when I first came to The Hurd... > This also will be in line with the popular Linux kernel, so is les > surprising for many users coming from there ... and I was surprised because I came from Linux.... > , and relieves us from fixing the broken package build scripts (I am > not sure how many there are. Potentially many, but as long as you > build as root in root owned directories or use fakeroot? > we won't easily notice most of them). I guess we are imitating some > BSD behaviour here? > What do modern BSDs do? Part of my reaction to discovering this `strange' behaviour was to log into the nearest FreeBSD machine to see whether I was seeing a Linuxism or a Hurdism--FreeBSD seems to behave as The Hurd does. I think that I prefer Linux's behaviour. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
