Nothing terrible might happen but the current design is a
well-considered choice. I'd like to be won over by a technical
argument before sanctioning a change.
-rob
On 7/30/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
other defined permission and mode bits can. The gid can be
changed: by the owner if also a member of the new group; or
by the group leader of the file's current group if also
leader of the new group (see intro(9P) for more information
about permissions, users, and groups). None of the other
I don't think anything terrible would happen if
one deleted the text "if also a member of the new group"
for the owner. Maybe it's a holdover from Unix worth
getting rid of. It's almost certainly a one-line change
to fossil.
Russ