Hello Jim,
> Thanks for the report, but that is the documented behavior:
>
> info coreutils 'file perm' dir
Ah, oh. I didn't know this. This actually violates the principle of
least surprise in my eyes, but hey, if it is documented, I am ok with
it.
Thinking some more about it, isn't the behaviour then wrong by clearing
the set-uid bit?
The doc says:
If you want to try to clear these bits, you must mention them
explicitly in a symbolic mode, e.g.:
But if I review my example, then I first set suid+sgid, then do a chmod
0 and suid is still set, but not suid:
d...@ohwell:tmp[0]$ mkdir foo ; $p/chmod 3777 foo ; ls -ld foo ; $p/chmod 0 foo
; ls -ld foo
drwxrwsrwt 2 dzu dzu 4096 2009-03-13 15:28 foo
d-----S--- 2 dzu dzu 4096 2009-03-13 15:28 foo
Isn't this still a bug alas the other way round then I originally
thought?
Thanks
Detlev
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