On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:14:40PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > Really?  I thought setting the sgid bit on a directory caused this
> > behaviour...
> 
> On Solaris, yes.
> 
> On BSD, no.
> New files take on the same group ownership as the directory they are in.

Thanks, Ceri, I wasn't aware of that.  Live and learn  ;-)

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