On Fri, 06 May 2011 21:54:28 -0400
Jeff Licquia <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/06/2011 09:29 PM, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > why does the directory need to be sgid if just one game will be
> > using it?
> > (perhaps i misunderstand your comment?)
> 
> So new files are owned by group 'games' instead of the user's default
> group.
> 
> The whole business is needed even for one game because multiple users 
> might play the same (single) game with, say, a shared high score file.

Ah, of course.
For some reason while replying i dropped into a magical land where
games all ran as their own user(s).
well, thats one mystery solved.
thanks,
kk

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